Medical anthropologist Ann Cheney speaks to Live Science writer Sascha Pare about the heavy toll toxic dust from California's largest inland lake takes on marginalized communities.
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
New survey reveals one in 10 Americans identify politics as biggest risk they face in life – 10 times the global average Americans are 10 times more likely than people elsewhere in the world to regard politics as the greatest threat to their personal safety, according to a global survey that sugg...
Factors such as erosion, dehydration and soil compaction are jeopardizing food supplies for broad swaths of the world's population, according to a study by the University of Bonn, the University of Minnesota, the University of Basel and Hamburg University of Technology. If human-made soil degrad...
When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy’s most precise disappearing acts to date. The telescope will carry the first space-bound “active” coronagraph, an instrument that effectively erases most of the light from ...
Archaeologists in El Salvador exhumed human remains believed to be nearly 3,000 years old Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture said.