Cómo las danzas del agua y el sedimento pueden terminar creando controversias diplomáticas.

Governments worldwide are trying to increase fertility with cash. But the most famous birthrate "boom" had a lot to do with science and technology, as well.

Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.

At a moment when all countries need to raise their ambition on climate action, the opposite seems to be happening. But hope isn't lost. Three actions can accelerate the green transition even amid rece...

Why lawmakers should act on a “rational basis review” of the available evidence, rather than waiting for definitive proof.

Japan faced some of the world’s toughest planning problems. It solved them by letting homeowners redesign neighborhoods together.

Sale covering 56,000 square miles to go ahead despite opposition Indigenous and environmental groups

‘Lack of choice, not desire’ is reason for global fertility crisis, UN says in a global report.

I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

'Big, beautiful bill' would result in 10.9 million people losing health insurance, primarily Medicaid.

Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

Policies have enabled cars and airplanes to be used safely. No such policies exist for social media or AI. Progress is being made to fix this gap—beginning with protecting our kids.

Los horizontes para litigar los daños atribuidos a emisores históricos de CO2 se han ampliado con este fallo.

Par « opportunité » et « devoir de solidarité », les universités québécoises sont prêtes à ouvrir leurs portes aux chercheurs touchés par les restrictions imposées par l’administration Trump. Mais l’occasion pourrait leur « glisser entre les doigts », sans l’aide rapide de Québec et Ottawa.

More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

House Republicans have bet that nothing bad will happen to America’s economic position or energy supply. The evidence suggests that’s a big risk.

But on the whole, USC execs earned slightly less money last school year.

The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. This page is updated annually using annual tree cover loss data. Update...

Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level ...

Americans across all generations still value free speech. But for younger Americans, especially, that support is less strong and seems increasingly conditional.

The title says it all. Heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through the Midwest Thursday evening, leaving thousands of homes without...

Getting substances out of the lab

In 2024, over 295 million people across 53 countries and territories faced acute hunger—an increase of almost 14 million people compared to 2023, while the n...

As AI's power grows, charting its inner world is more crucial. Anthropic researchers recently pulled the veil back a little further.

With derisking regimes falling short of meeting governments' pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions, what lessons can we learn from governance through indicative planning? Historically strong coor...

One of the biggest mistakes we can make in the current moment is to assume climate change is only an environmental problem—one that we will address at some time in the future. Climate change is an eve...

Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

Jakub Pachocki, who leads the firm’s development of advanced models, is excited to release an open version to researchers.

These House districts have benefitted the most from the IRA. Will their Republican leaders have the courage to save it?

The House Ways and Means Committee issued its proposed language for inclusion in Congress’s massive budget reconciliation package. It’s the opening attempt to reduce spending in order to partially…

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

That’s the only way he’ll profit from selling you AI friends

The White House’s beef with academia may cause a longer-term drag on America’s productivity, innovation and tech leadership.

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.