NISAR, a giant orbiting antenna 39 feet in diameter, will monitor changes to glaciers, forests, and the Earth’s crust, providing data to help improve infrastructure and disaster responses.
The scavengers are tricky, the smells are gross, and your colleagues are corpses. But some people—mostly women!—love this job.
The opinion opens a door for future claims by countries seeking reparations for climate-related harm.
The tool models the sun using AI, and its developers say it can anticipate solar flares 16 percent more accurately and in half the time of current prediction systems.
A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely — and more directly — than previously understood.
A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely — and more directly — than previously understood.
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.
This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.
In March 2025 the Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun, but lasting only milliseconds.
This deadly bacteria, which hits low-income people the hardest, was once an “only in New York” problem. Extreme heat is now increasing its prevalence.
