A bipartisan group in Congress is drafting a sweeping bill to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency—in some cases, ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

Cities across the U.S., including inland ones such as Denver and Dallas, are settling into the earth, posing increased ...

Hit by restructuring, the EPA is reportedly ending the Energy Star program that saves billions for business and consumers ...

Past research shows that there are two major motivations surrounding our social networks: one to meet new people and the ...

Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes ...

Lili Xia is an assistant research professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University.

The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world, by taking our nuclear missiles off hair trigger alert, and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

As spring warms the eastern U.S. and green shoots peek from the ground, other forms of life stir in the soil. Periodical ...

In the new book Personhood, historian and law professor Mary Ziegler explores how the push to grant embryos and fetuses full ...