Nature forces lifeforms to adapt to its conditions. That is a basic fact behind natural selection. From that perspective, it makes sense for engineers to learn...
California has seen an uptick in wildfires, from Siskiyou County to San Diego. Southern California has caught the brunt of the surge. Nearly a dozen fires...
Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes.
Welcome back to our ongoing series, a Brief-ish History of SETI. In our previous installments, we looked at the philosophical underpinning of SETI and the earliest...
California and a coalition of other Democratic-led states are suing the Trump administration over new limits on federal borrowing by aspiring nurses, physician’s assistants, therapists, social...
Is there anything Democrats can do to break free of a deeply polarized political system in which parties are constantly winning and then losing office?
You’re doing some late afternoon work on the habitat as part of humanity’s first exoplanet settlement, but the sun is going down so you’re trying to...
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest...
Ahead of the World Cup, the head of South American soccer faces an ethics complaint he received payments recovered from a 2015 investigation that shook global...
(This is Part 2 of a series on Hawking’s no-boundary proposal. Read Part 1 first.) I thought the whole point of this program was that we...