Mathematics and poetry are rarely spoken of in the same breath. One is assumed to be precise, structured, and governed by rules; the other fluid, emotional, and intuitive. Yet for Zeina Alqasem, a ...

Featuring family secrets, spectral visitors, and fabulous women, this book is keen to muddle facile understandings of time ...

American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics ...

The seventh edition of the Global Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors say the worst ...

And now more cities are implementing curbside composting to help them meet their sustainability goals. New York is currently rolling out a mandatory composting program that will soon be effect in ...

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With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...

ON AN OCTOBER night in 1989, a 4-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone ringing and then a scream. She crept out of her bedroom and tiptoed barefoot along the hallway’s clammy vinyl tile, ...

It’s official: “Six Seven” Just earned the title of Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year. But even as the word is officially added to the cultural lexicon, it has already been quietly removed ...

Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health is first to reveal town-by-town pollution levels and health impacts, including 2,780 deaths in 2019 Air pollution remains a silent killer in ...

Steffini Stalos, DO, FCAP, is a pathology and lab medicine physician. She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates, LLC. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration ...