Meteor Showers in 2021 That Will Light Up Night Skies
All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers can light up night skies...
How Trump Tried, but Largely Failed, to Derail America’s Top Climate Report
The National Climate Assessment, America’s premier contribution to climate knowledge, stands out for many reasons: Hundreds of scientists across the federal government and academia join...
Teaching My Child to Love a Dying World
As a rabbi and climate activist, I’d already been grieving a long time. For our trees, for the great Appalachian hemlock forests, as well as...
What Scientists Know About How the Coronavirus Variant Spreads
A more contagious form of the coronavirus has begun circulating in the United States.In Britain, where it was first identified, the new variant became the...
Why Coronavirus Vaccine Distribution is Taking Longer Than Expected
In Florida, less than one-quarter of delivered coronavirus vaccines have been used, even as older people sat in lawn chairs all night waiting for their...
Daniel M. Tellep, Engineer Who Steered Lockheed’s Growth, Dies at 89
Daniel M. Tellep, an aerospace engineer who initiated a merger between Lockheed and Martin Marietta to form the world’s largest military contractor, then became its...
Richard Thornburgh, Former Governor and Attorney General, Dies at 88
Dick Thornburgh, a two-term Republican governor of Pennsylvania who coped with America’s worst nuclear power meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 and later served...
In Minority Communities, Doctors Are Changing Minds About Vaccination
Like many Black and rural Americans, Denese Rankin, a 55-year-old retired bookkeeper and receptionist in Castleberry, Ala., did not want the Covid-19 vaccine.Ms. Rankin worried...
Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture?
The days have turned gray, the future feels black. We’re all seeing red, we’re all feeling blue. Perhaps it’s the isolated colors that are bringing...
Here’s Why the ‘Last Mile’ of Vaccine Distribution Is Going So Slowly
In Florida, less than one-quarter of delivered coronavirus vaccines have been used, even as older people sat in lawn chairs all night waiting for their...