The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast, and on winter nights the constellation Orion hangs ...

When does daylight saving time begin in 2026? Here's a look at when the time changes this year, and why we change our clocks ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

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Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

Two fully adult angry male Sambar deer fighting with their big long large antlers showing dominance at Ranthambore National park or tiger reserve, India.© Sourabh Bharti/Shutterstock.com Why are ...

Why are hunting season dates so specific? While the way hunting seasons are determined may seem like an easy or arbitrary choice, it is far from that. In practice, these dates are actually built ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

As he took his final steps before leaving the moon, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan had some poignant closing words: “We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for ...

“You probably looked like the little girl on the cover,” my husband commented. “I wasn’t alive in 1943, but she does look a little like me, I suppose,” I remarked as I looked at the pin-curled blonde ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...