For most of the modern era, improvements in weather prediction followed a predictable trajectory. Better sensors led to ...

After spending the first 16 years of her federal government career focused on the impacts of climate change, Libby Jewett hoped to wrap up her time at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Knowable Magazine reports 2025 faced turmoil in U.S. science amid job cuts and budget slashes, yet saw advances in gene ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In a major escalation of this administration’s attack on science and weather research, the Office of Management and Budget is saying it plans to break up the ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Scientists working to learn why some tropical storms suddenly intensify to become devastating major hurricanes say it’s important to learn all they can about each one because opportunities to study ...

Nov. 5 (UPI) --A moderate solar flare might affect radio communications on Earth Wednesday after a pair of powerful solar flares disrupted radio communications in sunlit areas of the globe this week, ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to accurately monitor for potential tsunamis in Alaska — and quickly warn ...

“I always wanted to be a public servant and do science for the good of the people,” said Corina Allen, who lost her job at NOAA. Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Supported by Interview by ...

Victims of Christmas fire in Providence identified as mother, son As the investigation into a deadly Christmas morning fire on Princeton Avenue in Providence continues, the community is remembering a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...