In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.

Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded like.

Mars Materials, a US-based startup developing a CO₂-derived route to acrylonitrile, will be among the companies featured in ...

Countries worldwide have dramatically ramped up their climate policies over the past two decades. The number of climate measures has quadrupled since 2000, with some datasets showing a fifteen-fold ...

A typically under-the-radar race for the board of the public utility serving Phoenix has been shaken up by the enthusiastic involvement of Turning Point USA.

When the Louisiana Legislature convenes on March 9, it will consider hundreds of bills covering all sorts of issues that ...

At U of T, there has been a long history of student organizing, from the anti-Apartheid movement of the ’80s, to opening the ...