A Proto-Pizza Emerges From a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall
It may have been no pepperoni with extra cheese, but it still caught the eye of archaeologists working on the ruins of Pompeii, and not...
Can Indoor Air Quality Sensors Keep Offices Safe?
When wildfire smoke began blanketing New York City in June, employees at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an architecture and design firm in Lower Manhattan, had...
How Bad Will the Ticks Be This Summer?
If you end up becoming one of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers expected to be bitten by a tick this summer, don’t be...
Many Future Storms May Dump 50% More Rain, Overwhelming City Drains
As climate change intensifies severe rainstorms, the infrastructure protecting millions of Americans from flooding faces growing risk of failures, according to new calculations of expected...
Research Assigns Wildfire Smoke Back to Its Source
As smoke from wildfires crosses state and international borders more frequently, tracking and studying it is increasingly important for shaping air quality and health measures around...
Can Hidden Fungal Networks Help Save Earthly Existence?
About 500 million years ago, when aquatic plants began to inch toward land, they couldn’t live there on their own. They enlisted fungal mycelium networks,...
Climate Change Is Making Floods and Landslides More Likely, Study Finds
As the climate warms, mountain regions will get more extreme rainfall than previously thought, and more of the dangers that come with it, according to...
The ‘Forbidden Planet’ That Escaped a Fiery Doom
All across the Milky Way, dying stars are gobbling up their planets. Even Earth is likely to perish this way about five billion years from...
Will Wildfires Like Canada’s Become the New Normal?
With so much toxic wildfire smoke moving across the Canadian border and upending life across the Eastern United States, it raises a troubling question: Will...
Pumping Groundwater Has Changed Earth’s Spin, Study Finds
Around the turn of the millennium, Earth’s spin started going off-kilter, and nobody could quite say why. For decades, scientists had been watching the average...
It’s Never Too Late to Become a Nurse
“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. Joanna Patchett...
Remnants of Cindy Could Redevelop, Meteorologists Say
Remnants of Cindy, the second active tropical storm to threaten the Caribbean in this past week, could redevelop, forecasters said. It was unclear if it...
Anthony Fauci to Teach at Georgetown University
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who served as the federal government’s top infectious disease specialist for nearly 40 years and played a key role in steering...
Tree Loss Increases in Crucial Tropical Forests
More than a year after countries pledged to end deforestation by 2030, the world is continuing to lose its tropical forests at a fast pace,...