Science

Real Estate

Undeterred by climate change, US homeowners are moving to climate-vulnerable areas

County Map of wildfire risk based on FEMA National Risk Index

11 proven ways women can lower cholesterol after 40

A middle-aged woman jogging at the park.

Future-proof your body: Beginner biohacks that could add years

A modern home sauna with bathrobes hanging on its wall.

Every 30 minutes, someone arrives at an ER with a gunshot wound, according to the CDC

Staff in the Trauma Unit at the John H. Stroger Jr. Cook County Hospital treat a man with a gunshot wound.

Switching from a compounded to a brand-name GLP-1? Here’s how to do it in 5 steps

Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy pens on a white background.

Environment

Support for renewables shrinks as fossil fuel interest grows

Wind turbines in federal ocean waters installed in 2020 as part of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot project.

This little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making your city hotter

Workers install a new roof on the Rogers Centre, home of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team.

Environment

The fix for parched Western states: Recycled toilet water

The director of water re-use operations for startup Epic Cleantec holds up a sample of treated water.

Climate disasters inflict outsized harm on pregnant and young families

Residents that canoed the flooded South Fork New River talk at a washed out road on September 27, 2024 in Boone, North Carolina

Environment

Earth's orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse.

Long-exposure taken over 30 seconds showing many satellites moving across the night sky appearing as dotted lines.

Plants & Animals

Plants & Animals

How farmers can help rescue water-loving birds

A flock of sandhill cranes in Louisiana.

Plants & Animals

Got invasive plants? Call a herd of goats

Two goats in a herd smiling happily eating invasive plants in a wide land.

Plants & Animals

Fish are thriving in the river Seine

A view of one of the bridges over the river Seine in Paris, France.

Plants & Animals

Planning for spring's garden? Bees like variety and don't care about your neighbors' yards

Closeup on a bumblebee feeding on a yellow cosmos flower.

Plants & Animals

Rotten tricks: How hot and stinky plants woo pollinators

A collage of thermogenic plants, clockwise from top left: sago palm (Cycas revoluta); Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), elephant-foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), Yulan magnolia (Magnolia denudata), calico-flower (Aristolochia littoralis), American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris), Florida anise (Illicium floridanum), Rhizanthes lowii, dead-horse arum (Helicodiceros muscivorus).

Space

Space

5 of the rarest astronomical events—and when you'll next see them

The head of Halley's Comet as photographed by Dr George Willis Ritchey.

Space

25 of the best places to see the solar eclipse across the US

The beginning of a solar eclipse as seen through very light cloud cover.

Space

23 astronomical events to look out for in 2023

A view of a Perseid meteor shower in a purple sky with pine trees in the foreground.

Space

33 groundbreaking NASA missions in photographs

Webb NIRCam composite image from two filters – F212N (orange) and F335M (cyan) – of Jupiter system.

Space

Space discoveries that will blow your mind

An image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephans Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies

Weather

Weather

How do hurricanes affect baby names?

A sleeping baby bundled in a blue beanie with a pom pom and a blue blanket..

Weather

Mango farms where? Climate change is scrambling where the world's food is grown.

Six varieties of mangoes line the fields at PapaMango in Sicily.

Weather

Oh, great: Rat populations are surging as cities heat up

A rat looking for food in a New York City subway station platform.

Weather

Fast fashion is haunting L.A.'s wildfire relief efforts

Volunteers sort through piles of clothing and textile donations made to California wildfire victims.

Weather

What hurricane season was like the year you were born

A train underwater, a beach road destroyed after a storm and a figure watching palm trees bend in the waves and wind.

Plants & Animals

2024's best cities for flower availability–just in time for Mother's Day

Red and yellow tulips growing in the large fields of Skagit Valley.

Environment

Extreme heat drives up food prices. Just how bad will it get?

Sunflowers dried out in a field due to drought.

Health

States are enacting laws this year to put opioid overdose remedies in more public places

A close up of two orange bottles on a table, one standing upright with its prescription label for oxycodone visible, and the other on its side with the top off and a few white pills spilling out.

Health

5 ways to improve your mental health during Mental Health Awareness Month

Woman connecting with nature, forest bathing.

Plants & Animals

Kitten season is out of control. Are warmer winters to blame?

An unweaned grey and white kitten peeks from a carrier inside the kitten nursery at the Best Friends Animal Shelter.

Health

Virtual mental health care skyrocketed during the pandemic and has stayed popular. Is this the new norm?

Woman sitting in front of a computer for a virtual meeting with a therapist.

Health

New research suggests a beneficial link between erectile dysfunction medication and heart health

A graphic of a heart rhythm background with an overlay of blue pills.

Health

These states have the highest-quality home health agencies, according to patients

A health worker visiting a senior male patient at home.

Health

Teen mental health is in crisis in the US, and schools are ill-equipped to help

An illustration of a person with question marks floating around his head while four people with exclamation marks above their heads sit in front of him.

Health

New study shows that self-compassion can successfully benefit weight loss plans

Two people running on the bridge in the morning with a view of sunrise.