Cities have always done something strange to human life. Put more people into the same space, and ideas, habits, rumors, jobs ...

Cities around the world are trying to become more like sponges. The idea sounds simple enough, with more parks, rain gardens, green roofs, wetlands, porous soil, and smarter drains helping streets ...

A tiny particle that crossed the universe and reached Antarctica may have started its journey inside a distant galaxy wrapped in dust. A new study points to JCMT0402−0424, nicknamed “Shadow Blaster,” ...

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has survived another attempt to weaken the rules that guide its protection. A Congressional Review Act push to overturn the monument’s 2025 ...

Computer chips may be heading toward a new kind of precision, one measured not in wires or circuits, but in single layers of atoms. A research team has found that coating an ultrathin chip material ...

In Malawi’s southern Chiradzulu district, Diana Sitima’s farm stands out for a simple reason. On 8.6 acres near Blantyre, she is not betting everything on maize. Her land produces sweet potatoes, ...

How much sunlight reaches the ground beneath a forest, beside a highway, or on a snowy mountain slope? In Switzerland, scientists now have an unusually detailed answer. A new national map shows light ...

In 1994, a New South Wales (NSW) park ranger named David Noble lowered himself into a remote rainforest canyon in Wollemi National Park, about 93 miles northwest of Sydney, and walked into one of the ...

Georgia is trying to protect working farms before more fields become subdivisions, warehouses, and data centers. State lawmakers set aside $2 million to establish the Georgia Farmland Conservation ...

What could punch a nearly round hole in the glowing gas near the Milky Way’s central black hole, then disappear from the scene? A new astrophysics study suggests the answer may not be a single ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has watched a giant exoplanet go through one of the most dramatic temperature swings ever seen beyond our solar system. The planet, called HD 80606 b, is roughly 4 ...

Imagine prying open a doorway that has not moved since Neanderthals walked along the Mediterranean shore. That is roughly what archaeologists have done inside a hidden chamber in Gibraltar. What would ...