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Historical analysis shows that natural forces are behind California’s drought, but global warming has contributed 8%-27% to the drought’s severity.
New research provides a compact but powerful way for Mars rovers to communicate directly with Earth via an array of smaller antenna elements, bypassing the need for an intermediary.
With the rate of suicide on the rise, it’s time to train law enforcement officials to recognize the signs of mental illness.
Despite the huge attention to intercollegiate sports, is the day of reckoning approaching?
In what’s looking more and more like a power grab, the NFL and Goodell may have overplayed their hand.
Elon Musk of Tesla Motors wants to build an affordable, mass-market electric car. What can Tesla learn from another auto innovator – Henry Ford?
Keeping a printed book in a campus library comes with steep costs. How are campus libraries evolving?
Traditionally, libraries provided a quiet space to read. Today’s libraries are taking on new roles and helping young people gain 21st-century skills.
The data tell the story: mobile ads work.
History shows how scientists and the public tried to understand hereditary cancer risk well before we had the technology to discover mutations and test for genetic disorders.
The House proposes slashing funding for earth science from NASA’s budget, yet this science is critical to understanding – and coping with – the dramatic effects of a warming Arctic around the world.
Campus police forces across the country are increasingly professional and well-armed.
Parents and politicians once feared heavy metal music would inspire devil worship, reckless sex and rampant drug use. A new study investigates what became of young metal fans.
By filming these ultra-speedy feeders at transparent fake flowers, researchers finally figured out how hummingbirds slurp up the nectar so fast.
We don’t need more laws regulating drones. Here’s why.
It’s been done before but tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – particularly when prices for oil are low – isn’t the best way to fund the Highway Trust Fund.
It is no surprise that libraries are coping with a large number of patrons who are homeless or have mental illnesses. Public libraries are, after all, designed to be welcoming spaces for all.
Poetry is at the heart of technology. Did not Pythagoras find the connections between beautiful music and mathematics?
The fossilized plant Montsechia relied on water to disseminate its genetic material and may rewrite the book on when and how the first flowering plants evolved.
How does one prove that shift work causes breast cancer, as the authors of the new study claim? A cancer epidemiologist explains how scientists weigh evidence to figure out what causes cancer.
The US Embassy is open in Havana. Now American academics can begin strengthening ties with their counterparts in Cuba.
Teacher shortages have become severe, especially in certain parts of America. Here’s a close look at the often unnecessary and expensive teacher preparation programs.
Our power grid infrastructure on Earth is more vulnerable to space weather than previously thought – with susceptibility in more regions and even during quiet geomagnetic periods.
They’re rude, crude and uncouth. So what makes farts so funny?