Go behind the scenes at the Outside Lab. See how we used data and science to stress-test rain shells, backpacks, and ...

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

On any given winter morning, several members of the Northwest Avalanche Center’s 11-member team commute to one of the region’s hardiest jobs: avalanche observation. From Mount Hood ...

For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...

Bolted into a concrete slab in a grassy field in Colesville, a 30-foot-tall metal tower with devices to measure weather ...

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

A full-body scan every few years, for some, is a small price to pay for a wide-ranging check-up. Is it the right choice for ...

Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

And they find one: a female green anaconda about 16 to 17 feet long, “pure muscle.” The Waorani secure the giant ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...