Science

Bobby Monacella was tired of sending her two children to school on buses full of diesel fumes. Pollution inside these iconic yellow buses can be up to 10 times higher than...

Every ton of carbon dioxide people emit comes at a price - not just in terms of the financial consequences of damage from floods, heat waves and droughts, but also in...

I've been asking questions for as long as I can remember. That's why my parents called me "Miss Inquisity". I was that quirky kid in the playground playing with butterflies and...

Since the modern introduction of the Olympic Games in 1896, international sports competition has not had two summer competitions that look alike. One of the litany of curiosities is the infamous...

One of the most fundamental questions about climate change is also one of the thorniest: Exactly how much will the earth warm in response to future greenhouse gas emissions? The answer,...

Imagine the following scenario. Scientists identify a potential global threat, but initial data are patchy - not enough to prompt drastic action. The threat grows rapidly and relentlessly. What was once...

My quantum experiment, which has occupied me for over a year, has brought out a creepy memory that has long been buried. It dates back to the late 1970s when I...

When the Washington State Department of Health announced this week that the recent heat wave in the northwest had killed 117 people, many people overlooked an important word in the announcement....

What is lurking on the Red Planet? Despite being only one-tenth the mass of Earth, Mars appears to have once been habitable like our own world, leading scientists to wonder whether...

At a time when much of the world is still struggling to get access to COVID vaccines, whether or not to vaccinate children can feel like a privilege. On July 19,...