Attribution science — linking cause and effect — involves statistical methods and climate models to identify the human influence on particular weather events and long-term climate patterns. It allows ...

A few hours after taking the Oath of Office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

We’re closing out the year with a roundup of the science stories that stood out to our editors in 2024.

Jan. 30, 2025 — A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can ... Cold Waves in the Rainforest ...

John Dixon has received honoraria from Reshape Lifesciences and Nestle Health Science Australia for consultancy ... Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity ...

Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. January 27, 2025 • A recent study in the journal Nature unveiled new proteins ...

Earth Scientists Study Sikkim Flood in India to Help Others Prepare for Similar Disasters Jan. 30, 2025 — Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long forgotten—but still viable to grow and consume Ari Daniel The "Nation ...

they chose to tell their daughter a lie about being at risk for cancer rather than the truth about being intersex—with reproductive anatomy and genetics that didn’t fit the strict definitions ...

The sample size was 500 people for the Irish segment of the study, with participants questioned on a range of topics including trust in science, definitions of science and scientists, and ...