It is often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer aboard Apollo 11 did 50 years ago. But is that true? And, if so, how much more powerful are our phones? Many ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

They won’t be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes? In 2008, a 24-hour inferno ripped through a Universal Studios backlot, incinerating a massive ...

Amid attacks on several food security programs from the Trump administration, this proposed change could ignite yet another debate about where we draw the line. The federal poverty line is a relic.

Research has found that migrants and refugees don’t spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness because of poor living conditions. One of the ...

In low, pharmaceutical-grade doses, meth may actually repair and protect the brain in certain circumstances. D-methamphetamine is what generally appears on the street—although it’s often cut with ...

Local newspapers in the United States are declining at an alarming rate. A lack of local news sources can be bad for democracy, leaving politicians free to act without scrutiny. A new study suggests ...

In September of 1999, North Carolina found itself facing a foul problem. As Hurricane Floyd battered the coast, floodwaters breached lagoons of animal waste from the state’s industrial hog farms, ...

I grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, I went back to investigate. In the autumn of 1980, a contractor showed up to grade a ...

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions. Despite ongoing deforestation, fires, drought-induced die-offs, and insect ...

In a windowless London basement, behind three sets of locked steel doors and a wall of glass, thousands of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes cling like Marvel supervillains to the sides of white mesh cubes ...

An emphasis on the humanities in medical school trains future doctors to become proficient in the social and cultural context of health care. A three-year-old was newly diagnosed with a brain tumor ...