Science

Wildfires in the Mediterranean basin are among the most closely watched indicators of a warming, drying climate, yet in many parts of North Africa the...

Delhi, one of the most polluted megacities on Earth, has long presented scientists with a frustrating paradox: the air quality data needed to understand and...

Every musician knows the frustration of trying to transcribe a complex piece of music by ear, hunting for the right notes, chords, and instruments hidden...

Every year, global agriculture generates hundreds of millions of tonnes of wheat straw, a fibrous residue that is often burned or left to decompose, releasing...

The simple amino acid glycine, long known mostly as a building block of proteins and a cheap dietary supplement, may turn out to be an...

In a finding that could reshape one of aquaculture's most controversial practices, researchers in Uganda and South Africa have shown that ordinary pine pollen—the fine,...

In the forested mountains of southern Italy, the gray wolf has staged one of Europe's most remarkable recoveries, and a new study suggests that the...

When COVID-19 overwhelmed hospitals across the world, the fiercest public debates centered on who should get the last intensive care bed, the last ventilator, the...

Artificial intelligence has quietly reshaped how geologists hunt for buried copper, and a new study from China's Duobaoshan ore district shows just how far the...

In a development that could reshape how lightweight structural materials are manufactured, researchers have demonstrated that banana peel waste—an abundant agricultural byproduct typically destined for...

The way science is judged has become as consequential as the science itself, and two recent books examined in a new review in the journal...

Across the world's classrooms, the dominant response to adolescent digital distraction has been the ban: smartphones locked away, social media platforms restricted, screen time capped...