The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.
Sewage-contaminated water absorbs certain wavelengths of light, leaving a signature that can be detected by space-based instruments, a new study finds.
A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.
These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.
Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.
Court ruling allows interim nuclear waste storage in Texas, but the U.S. still has no long-term plan for its 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel.
Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.
Atomic Dreams explores nuclear energy's future in the U.S. through the history of Diablo Canyon, California's last operational nuclear power plant.
In 1925, John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.
