The profound decline in whale populations doesn't just change our ocean ecosystems – it might also be impacting our atmospheric climate.

A variety of studies have shown that, by the second grade, about 75 percent of girls have already developed an implicit belief that science, math and engineering are subjects that belong more to boys.

There are some ways in which this latest cycle of censorship is different, and perhaps even more alarming.

Climate change isn't just making our world incrementally warmer – its impacts are making us sicker, both physically and mentally.

When the EPA told people in Globe, Arizona, that their soil was toxic and needed to be cleaned up, many residents responded in a surprising way.

Almost everyone these days seems to agree that political discourse in this country has gotten too heated – a group based in Utah created a tool to try and change that.

Our attention spans have been significantly changed by the digital devices that surround us, but there's things we can do to help that.

The "project of physics" will never be complete, but some scientists in the 19th century thought there was little left to explore. Thankfully, that wasn't the case.

Sometime in the next few years, the water level in Lake Powell may drop so low that it will be impossible for the lake’s dam to continue producing electricity.

What Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva does now about the Amazon may impact every person on this planet.