We need to be pessimistic enough to prepare for bad outcomes but optimistic enough to undertake new projects. We need to see ...

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, the Globe’s Steph Machado and Jim Hummel, host of “A Lively Experiment” on RI PBS, talk ...

Another CAS academician, Han Bin noted that since the launch of the Sugarcane Expressed Sequence Tag (SUCEST) project in the 1990s, countries such as Brazil, France, China, Australia, and the United ...

By David Larson The vast majority of Americans were very happy for election season to be over, putting all the divisiveness aside to come together to celebrate the holidays with their family and ...

A powerful earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 32 people and collapsed "many buildings" on Tuesday, ...

Slick roads, canceled flights and snowball fights were part of the D.C. area’s first major snowstorm in three years Monday, ...

Traditional methods of communicating how likely an area is to flood focus on designating which zones are "high risk." This new study suggests that ...

The mayor is taking his demand to the General Assembly, seeking legislation to end the state takeover two years early.

Climate change − a global phenomenon − can neither be confirmed nor disproven by comparing Antarctic sea ice extent on two ...

I crossed a dream trip off my bucket list. While I’d driven many sections of Route 66 over the years, I had never tackled the ...

There’s so much to love about our national parks! That’s why we’ve put together a national parks checklist and map you c ...

Tens of thousands of Kentuckians are without power as a winter storm hammers much of the state with snow, ice and an incoming ...