Science

A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely — and more directly — than previously understood.

A report published in June found that the world only has three years before it crosses the 1.5 C climate target. So what should we do now?

Today's encryption works well, until tomorrow's quantum computers arrive.

Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex organic molecules.

A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.

Satellites don't stop at borders and neither should science.

A retraction intends to bring to an end the acrimonious debate about the validity of the 15-year old findings that threatened to upend what we thought we know about life.

The US West Coast is the world's worst mega-drying region.

It's 1961, and four intrepid cosmic explorers journey to space under the leadership of Reed Richards, where they encounter cosmic rays that change them forever. But what are cosmic rays?

Although the antimatter qubit won't find use in quantum computing, it will be used to test the differences between matter and antimatter.