Besides helping to collect samples or spot butterflies for research projects—non-professionals can now conduct actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. Together with Danish high ...

It feels like we are getting used to the Earth being on fire. Recently, more than 70 wildfires burned simultaneously in Greece. In early 2024, Chile suffered its worst wildfire season in history, with ...

Climate change from greenhouse gas emissions could make extreme El Nino events more frequent, according to new research. With the climate pattern known as El Niño in full force from mid-2023 to ...

Today the University of Chicago's Flash Center for Computational Science will release a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha. Based on previous software for simulating ...

Extreme rainfall and flooding have left paths of destruction through communities around the world this summer. In New York City, remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded streets and subway lines as more than ...

When you think of Antarctica, you might imagine a stark, other-worldly continent of endless, white ice. The only sound being the wind, punctuated by the crack of a glacier calving in the distance.

HOLYOKE — Extreme Science Kid on Saturday will host the “Brown Boy Brunch,” a program aimed at empowering urban youth. The program at the Delaney House in Holyoke commences at 9:30 a.m. and seeks to ...