Science

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environment Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions reductions from existing power plants.

The calf, believed to be female, was buried for more than 30,000 years in ancestral land of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, whose elders named her Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal" in the Hän language.

For centuries, scientists and historians have wondered where the Black Death — the deadliest pandemic in recorded history — came from. New research sheds light on the ancient disease.

The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in a key environmental case, WV v. EPA, says the federal agency lacks authority to use greenhouse gas emissions caps to force fossil fuel power plants out of business.

"Ventilation is the way forward," says infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan of Stanford. Here's how to get better air flow at home, in schools and offices — even in gyms — to stave off COVID.

The Department of Health and Human Services will make 296,000 doses available in the coming weeks, and expects a total of 1.6 million doses to be available in the U.S. by the end of the year.

A new book dives deep into the fascinating criminal world of tree theft and efforts to combat it.

A mastodon named Fred, also known as the Buesching mastodon, is a distant relative of the modern elephant. Fred's skeleton is preserved in the Indiana State Museum.

The testing system set up by the CDC actually deters doctors from ordering a monkeypox test, and many physicians aren't familiar with the disease, resulting in too few tests and little tracking.

Climate change has impacted the world's water, air and land masses. But today's news media isn't designed to reinforce public belief, say researchers.

A new study from Australia shows that larvae of the darkling beetle can eat polystyrene — the material behind plastic foam.

The largest bacteria known to science have been discovered in the Caribbean. They're visible to the naked eye and surprisingly complex.