It will be years until NASA is ready for a journey to the red planet, but if Earth continues to suffer from climate change, Mars could come to us. On Mars, we’ll all farm underground. Our crops will ...

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 ...

As young people read less and less, they may be short-circuiting their reading brains. They are bright, innovative, confident in their skills on all manner of digital screens and devices: This is ...

Teenage girls are challenging the meaning and the traditional constraints of gender—but many boys are still trying to fit into a gender structure that has historically benefited them. Danielle looked ...

Younger plants are able to extract carbon from the air and incorporate it into their biomass more quickly than mature trees. Forests store vast quantities of carbon and play a huge role in the world’s ...

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 ...

Although research debunks white supremacists’ claims about lactose intolerance, race has long played a role in American milk-drinking. In December of 2016, three weeks after President Donald Trump’s ...

During the 2016 election, Donald Trump famously proclaimed “I love the poorly educated!” Well, if “poorly educated” is a euphemism for “cognitively challenged,” new research finds they loved him right ...