What if, instead of pursuing an ever-higher material living standard, governments focused on improving workers’ job satisfaction? A good way to lose votes? I doubt it.

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

Green steel could boost Australia’s export earnings, reduce emissions and hedge against declining coal exports in a cleaner world economy. If a lot of things go right.

Marine storm cloud zones have shifted poleward and narrowed, and the changes are contributing to our planet’s growing energy imbalance.

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to collect dirt it places in tubes and leaves on the ground.

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey is optimistic about the state’s finances as he prepares to hand down his third budget, but climate change is predicted to contribute to soaring disaster relief payments.

This is why some countries can have debt up to their eyes while others collapse – and where Australia sits on the global hierarchy of debt.

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Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate change

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The present fashion of obsessing with productivity improvement for its own sake is counterproductive and probably won’t achieve much.

New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.

One in 23 properties in Australia are at high risk of natural disasters fuelled by global warming. In some electorates, it’s one in four. Check the risk where you live with our interactive maps.

I think both sides of politics are treating us like mugs. Maybe like the mugs many of us have allowed ourselves to become.

“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…

“They made a fortune with the United States of America,” the US President declared, as he imposed tariffs on some of the world’s poorest countries, in a move that could open the door for China.

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the highest hazard zone by 26%.

The Golden State needs a new way to pay for fire prevention, ASAP. The current system is broken.

Trump’s attack on higher education and scientific research undermines some of our most competitive advantages.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions.

As new cases are reported, our maps and illustrations show the spread of the virus and how infections can run through a community.

Elon Musk tweeted in 2022 that the Cybertruck "will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat." But a Cybertruck did not float in Ventura Harbor.

The pandemic gave researchers a rare opportunity to study human behavior. Their work offers lessons about loneliness, remote work, high heels and more.

Experiments I’ve conducted suggest Americans regularly comply with advice — even when we know it is bad. We often surrender our liberty in surprising ways.

Halophytes that thrive in increasingly saline soils could help feed people and livestock

We asked emergency physicians what lessons they’d learned from their job.

The mental health world has a term for psychological distress that happens when your values are violated.

A spending freeze could disrupt systems that warn communities when eruptions appear imminent.

Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.

Why don’t you move?

The Grants Pass ruling clears the way for punitive measures against homeless people. Officials from San Diego to San Francisco are all too eager to oblige.

An SUV was reportedly driving 60 to 70 mph northbound in the southbound carpool lanes of the 405 Freeway near Getty Center Drive just after 4 a.m. Tuesday, according to California Highway Patrol logs.