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Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should be—then found it

Scientists and supporters rallied in cities across the U.S. and Europe to protest dramatic funding cuts and other attacks from the Trump administration

The current system of daylight saving time and early school start times wastes billions while causing more car accidents, workplace injuries and health issues

Trump could drop a federal lawsuit against a petrochemical plant that emits chloroprene. Here’s a look at the cancer-causing chemical

The Federal Emergency Management Agency must show in one week whether it is complying with a judge’s ruling that blocks the Trump administration disaster aid freeze

Climate change is real. Dismantling our federal weather agency won’t change that

People who are rated as good storytellers exhibit a purpose-oriented mindset and big-picture thinking more often than others

The “quarantine fatigue” of 2020 became an ongoing “pandemic fatigue,” a complex set of emotions that continues to affect the nation

The March 13–14 lunar eclipse will be an all-night affair you won’t want to miss

Novelist John Green talks about his new nonfiction book, Everything is Tuberculosis, and the inequities in treatment for the highly infectious disease.

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacecraft

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days