Science

We look at the bushfires raging in Australia and discuss the role climate change is playing on wildfire severity and frequency around the globe.

After a long history of erasure, communities of color are reclaiming psychedelic traditions to heal from trauma.

After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are taking a fresh look at the potential of psychedelics in therapy. Could substances like ketam ...

The New Year is often a time for a fresh start. We reflect on our past habits, and resolve to do better — eat healthier, work harder, o ...

How five near-death experiences drove David Fajgenbaum to live his life to the fullest, and discover a novel treatment for Castleman's disease.

Sometimes, it means better conferences, as collaboration and access improve.

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A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission.

An annual plant census along New Jersey's beaches reveals a significant surge of a federally threatened and endangered plant species, state officials announced.

The Fraser fir is found in a lot of homes around Christmas. But its wild cousins have been in decline for almost a century because of a small invasive pest.

Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia accounted for one-third of the country's shale gas production in 2019.

Humans have a close relationship with trees. We plant and cultivate them for food and shelter. Trees offer protection from the rays of th ...

When English ivy vines threatened her family’s "private park," a homeowner enlisted some hungry, four-legged assistants.

Taxes and bans on single use plastics try to combat plastics in the oceans.

The balsam wooly adelgid has devastated Appalachia’s native Fraser firs. On a North Carolina farm, their domesticated cousins grow with TLC.