Researchers find that extreme cold induces acute stress in coral but that heat is ultimately more lethal.

A new study based on research in western Australia suggests that warming seas can benefit corals — but perhaps only to a point.

To aid defense contractors, researchers try to map how butterflies carry out an astonishing variety of flight maneuvers.

Counter to their expectations, researchers discovered that locusts thrive on land that is lower in nitrogen nutrients.

New, radical theories in science often take time to be accepted, especially those that directly challenge longstanding ideas, contemporary policy or cultural norms. The fact that the Earth revolves around the sun, and not vice-versa, took centuries to …

Some inconvenient realties behind dueling manifestos on global warming science and solutions.

A computer model traces geologic faults east of Denver, opening the way for an analysis of reactors’ vulnerability to shaking.

A new map gives New Yorkers a relative idea of how much energy the buildings in their neighborhoods are consuming — and what it’s being used for.

Other suggestions include placing barriers in five locations near Lake Michigan and a “mid-system” option that would come close to restoring a natural divide between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, broken more than a century ago. The Army Corps of…

A performance project conveys the stories behind the scientific process.