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 ...

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 suitcase can look ordinary from the outside. Inside, it may hold the remains of a shark, a bundle of dried seahorses, or marine animals packed for a long, stressful flight. A new study suggests that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new X-ray study has taken a sharper look at the hot gas inside the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the brightest galaxy clusters in the X-ray sky. The result challenges an old puzzle about whether ...

A single workout can do more than wake up tired legs. New research suggests that as inactive adults become fitter, their brains may use each new burst of exercise more effectively. The finding shifts ...

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,” ...

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, ...

On the beaches of Cabo Verde, more turtle tracks in the sand can look like a victory, but a new long-term study suggests that the real story is more complicated because loggerhead sea turtles are ...