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Try to solve a traveling salesman’s directional dilemma

An ancient shipwreck lost in deep waters has yielded its first clues: amphorae from a lost age of international trade and civilization

How does astronomical summer differ from meteorological summer? And how is climate change affecting how long summer lasts?

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union explains how climate change became a pillar of the union’s contract demands

These cohousing communities are fighting an epidemic of loneliness with radical neighborliness.

Gene-cutting diagnostic tests could be as easy as a rapid COVID test and as accurate as PCR

A completely fabricated condition, crafted from racist medical biases, still corrupts the criminal justice system today

Mathematicians picked the most dazzling, thought-provoking and compelling equations they know

A Doctor Who superfan explains how the unusual cardiovascular system of the alien Time Lords could evolve and function

Places beset by heat waves should receive FEMA disaster funds just as those hit by hurricanes or flooding do, labor unions, green groups and public health advocates argue in a new petition

The face of summer is transforming, as people today face more frequent, longer-lasting and hotter heat waves than they did several decades ago

The simplicity of the recycling symbol belies its complicated role in corporate America’s quest to sell ever more plastic