Many works on view encourage visitors to attend to the uncertain relationships they might have with unknown other bodies.

There’s one thing that Walter Hood likes most about his new, open-plan office in Oakland. “There’s always someone hanging ...

Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has grown tenfold. This “great acceleration,” to use the title of the ...

Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated ...

The story begins in 1835, when the first of what would become thousands of dams was built. These human-made reservoirs store ...

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

Many visitors expect to see stalactites and stalagmites galore in Mammoth Cave but are surprised when they don't see many of ...

This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.

The company is building an exploration well this year and plans to begin drilling production wells (those that can eventually ...

By building a gigantic dam just before the river exits Chinese-controlled territory, Beijing gains the power to manipulate cross-border flows.

Penn State Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jacob Holland-Lulewicz is among a group of archaeologists who have spent years ...

First the scientists dress dead swine in clothes, then they dispose of the carcasses. Some they wrap in packing tape, others ...