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Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment...

Anne McNeil, University of Michigan and Madeline Clough, University of Michigan It seems like every day a new study...

The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation...

Adam Meyer, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Kristy Ferraro, University of Michigan Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and...

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and...

Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near...
The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics promise relatively mild – but still chilly – temperatures compared to past games. Alex Pantling/Getty Images

Winter Olympians often compete in freezing temperatures – physiology and advances...

Cara Ocobock, University of Notre Dame and Gabriel R. Burks, University of Notre Dame The Winter Olympics and Paralympics...

Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009...

Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including...

Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting...

Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or...

Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom...

Volha Chykina, University of Richmond; David P. Baker, Penn State; Frank Fernandez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Justin J.W. Powell, University of Luxembourg

New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the...

Kai R. Larsen, University of Colorado Boulder; Roman Lukyanenko, University of Virginia, and Thomas H. Davenport, Babson College Technological...

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