Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has survived another attempt to weaken the rules that guide its protection. A Congressional Review Act push to overturn the monument’s 2025 ...

How much sunlight reaches the ground beneath a forest, beside a highway, or on a snowy mountain slope? In Switzerland, scientists now have an unusually detailed answer. A new national map shows light ...

A tiny redesign beneath an ultrathin superconductor may point toward a new generation of far more efficient electronics. Researchers in Sweden found that shaping the surface under a superconducting ...

In Malawi’s southern Chiradzulu district, Diana Sitima’s farm stands out for a simple reason. On 8.6 acres near Blantyre, she is not betting everything on maize. Her land produces sweet potatoes, ...

A tiny green parrot that many bird experts knew mostly from old museum specimens has turned up again in one of Indonesia’s hardest-to-reach mountain forests. The Blue-fronted Lorikeet, found only on ...

A single workout can do more than wake up tired legs. New research suggests that as inactive adults become fitter, their brains may use each new burst of exercise more effectively. The finding shifts ...

A plant that looks almost too simple to notice has just pushed scientists into strange chemical territory. Researchers studying smooth horsetail, a hollow-stemmed survivor from one of Earth’s oldest ...

China filled its streets with electric cars faster than almost any country in the world. Quiet buses, plug-in taxis, and low-cost models have changed the sound of traffic in many cities, where exhaust ...

Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower has moved past a milestone that once sounded almost unreal. The long-delayed megatower in Jeddah has officially reached 100 floors and about 1,312 feet in height, putting ...

On the beaches of Cabo Verde, more turtle tracks in the sand can look like a victory, but a new long-term study suggests that the real story is more complicated because loggerhead sea turtles are ...

A freezer works because time almost stops inside it. Food can sit there for months, sometimes years, as long as the cold never fails. In the far north, Earth has its own frozen storage system, and new ...

It sounds like something pulled from a science fiction movie. A vessel about one mile long, 800 feet wide, and 30 decks tall could one day carry up to 80,000 people across the world, with homes, ...