On many coastlines around the world, piles of discarded oyster and mussel shells are a common sight — the leftovers of a global seafood industry that produces millions of tonnes of waste each year. At ...

These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...

Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, which sits within the Milky Way X-ray: NASA / CXC / SAO; Optical: NASA / ESA / STScI; IR: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Milisavljevic et al., NASA / JPL / CalTech; Image ...

For years, the common wisdom and science was that a little bit of alcohol wasn’t bad — and even beneficial — for your health: a toast to moderation. But new research published in BMJ Evidence-Based ...

European countries curtailed a record amount of wind power in the first nine months of the year as excess output overwhelmed infrastructure that was unable to absorb surges in the flow of renewable ...

Bret Taylor, board chair at OpenAI and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was asked in a recent interview with The Verge whether he agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s declaration that “someone is going ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an “extremely stripped supernova”. In a paper published today in Nature, Steve Schulze of ...

Men in the U.S. are spending a record-high amount of time on household activities, though inequalities between men’s and women’s contributions persist, an NBC News analysis of new Bureau of Labor ...