ZDF's decision to pull Danger Dan and Igor Levit from prime time backfired spectacularly, with critics calling the move "cowardly" and warning of a chilling effect on free expression.
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?
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 ...
Every class instance is eventually destroyed. Swift gives you a way to know exactly when that happens — and the story of how it decides when to pull the trigger is surprisingly interesting. Here's something you've probably never thought about: what happens to your objects when you're done with ...