Bans on older versions of “forever chemicals” seem to be working. But emerging variants behave in ways that scientists are ...

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this microwave image of the Earth, including the Arctic sea ice cap, on 3 September 2010. Satellite images such as this provide a compelling visual record of seasonal ...

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. Gerardo Medina’s plumbing has ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today. The Trump Administration has ...

Researchers studied pristine sediment cores from Blackwood Sinkhole on Great Abaco Island, Bahamas, to document the climate history of the island. Credit: Pete van Hengstum When humans first arrived ...

A satellite image of an atmospheric river over the northeastern Pacific on 20 February 2017, which helped California and the American West emerge from a 5-year drought. Atmospheric rivers—relatively ...

Plate tectonics just turned 50. The theory of how our planet’s lithosphere—its outer layer—changes shape and evolves is probably one of the most important scientific advancements of all time. Before ...

One by-product of the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 is a view with an unprecedented level of detail of the landscape deep in the Indian Ocean. This 3-D image shows the ...

Example time slices of geomagnetic field intensity at Earth’s surface over the past 100 thousand years (ka) from the global GGF100k model show the field variability. This includes structures ...

The traditional “pipeline” model of workforce development—whereby an individual follows a fairly linear, predictable, and structured path through K–12, undergraduate, and graduate education into ...

An aerial view of the Archipelago Sea, a coastal region of the Baltic. Beneath these seemingly pristine waters lies a coastal ecosystem in crisis due to low oxygen levels. Credit: Kari Mattila, ...

This high-resolution map of magnetic field variations measured over northwestern Minnesota shows many details of the 2.7- to 2.0-billion-year-old geology underlying the cover of glacial deposits. A ...