Two key ingredients cause extreme storms with destructive flooding – why these downpours are happening more often
Rising global temperatures increase the risk of extreme downpours, as a climate scientist explains.
Rising global temperatures increase the risk of extreme downpours, as a climate scientist explains.
The IRS hasn’t issued clear guidance for them yet.
Legal experts are concerned that President Donald Trump is expanding executive powers beyond the law – creating what they call a constitutional crisis.
Research suggests school choice programs have little effect on student achievement but worsen overall outcomes by draining money from cash-strapped public school systems.
Control systems keep your house warm and your car’s speed constant, but they could also help address societal problems.
The agency hopes to make paying taxes less onerous for the majority of Americans who follow the rules.
The International Energy Agency moved up the date when it expects oil demand to peak to before 2030. Electric vehicle growth is a big part of the reason.
Two days after Rodgers’ injury, the NFL players union called on the league to convert all playing fields to natural grass.
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
You may have seen contestants on reality shows like “Survivor” make fire using friction, but do you know the physics behind the process?
The US saw a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, even when accounting for inflation. The number of long-running heat waves like the Southwest experienced is also rising.
A law scholar examines a pair of Supreme Court cases that pit the public’s free speech rights against politicians’ rights.
An atmospheric scientist explains how rising temperatures are helping to fuel extreme storms, floods, droughts and devastating wildfires.
Using fingerprints to catch criminals isn’t 100% accurate, but analyzing fingerprints in 3D, rather than 2D, could improve the process.
Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty for a school shooting committed by her son; the father faces trial next.
Media coverage of vice presidential candidates tends to focus on who can help win the election rather than who is qualified to help govern once in office.
The jury’s verdict followed years of allegations that the gun group’s top official and other leaders were spending money meant to benefit its members on their own luxuries.
Though only a few of Scorsese’s films focus on religious stories, deeper questions about faith, doubt and living in a violent world tend to haunt his movies.
Nobody wants to see an accident involving flammable, corrosive or radioactive material. But understanding the rules put in place to prevent these accidents isn’t easy.
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, creating uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
CAPTCHAs are a key part of the arms race between AI deceivers and AI deception detectors. A computer scientist explains how they work.
As a record-hot summer comes to a close, an atmospheric scientist explains how global warming drove long periods of extreme heat.
Applied mathematicians translate real situations into mathematical terms.
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