President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the sprawling government agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the ...

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Every time generative artificial intelligence drafts an e-mail or conjures up an image, the planet pays for it. Making two images can consume as much energy as charging a smartphone; a single ...

Every oceanographer I know who is studying the controversial idea of coaxing the ocean to absorb extra carbon dioxide from the atmosphere remembers the moment they decided to start this ...

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

Voters supported abortion rights measures while electing antiabortion candidates in the 2024 election. The split reflects a ...

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...

Hypochondria can, in extreme cases, leave people unable to hold down a job or make it impossible for them to leave the house, ...

Even before I could make out the silhouette of Platform Holly on the foggy horizon, I could see and smell oil. Ripples of iridescent liquid floated on the sea’s surface, reflecting the cloudy sky.

The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies ...