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Randy Schekman, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in medicine, says access to affordable, publicly supported higher education was crucial to his success. Can today's scientific talent even afford to pursue a career like his?
The once inexperienced businessman is changing the face of solar energy.
The most comprehensive study to date finds that the construction of wind farms near homes does not lower home sale prices.
Two new studies that came out in Europe during the last couple of days show that biofuel mandates are causing...
A year after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast, some scientists argue that restoring reefs and marshes can protect us next time. Engineers say that's a bunch of baloney.
Just as the state was about to clamp down on farmers who coat their crops with chicken manure, officials cave to the poultry industry.
Scientists say changes in tropical waters could be responsible for the recent "pause" in rising temperatures.
As ice thins, the Arctic gets less reflective -- and that's bad news.
On September 20, the Environmental Protection Agency will release new safeguards against carbon pollution that, if expectations are on target,...
