Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock ...

A disruption in federal funds has jeopardized HIV testing and outreach in the U.S. South, and researchers warn of a ...

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 ...

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

Hit by restructuring, the EPA is reportedly planning to end the Energy Star program, a project that has saved hundreds of ...

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 ...

The nature of chemical reactions at all energies is opened to study by these new devices. They produce beams of molecules, atoms or ions that are made to react under precisely controlled conditions ...

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