To understand the health risks from air pollution, you need to know what people are exposed to and how much of it.

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven by dynamic processes deep within the planet’s core. Drawing on 11 years of ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...

Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy ...

The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks. By Robert Jimison Reporting from ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My husband and I are in our late 40s, and for the last several months, he ...

In this episode, we make a significant design decision about our turret bathroom and reveal our actual flooring after uncovering discrepancies between the architect’s drawings, town records, and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists at MIT discovered a method to create a kind of particle accelerator using a molecule of radium monofluoride. Once excited by lasers in a ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

This image depicts the radium atom’s pear-shaped nucleus of protons and neutrons in the center, surrounded by a cloud of electrons (yellow), and an electron (yellow ball with arrow) that has a ...

Senator Alex Padilla (D-California) has introduced a bill to ban mid-decade redistricting, a move he says will ensure “fair” redistricting practices. The California Democrat argues that redistricting ...