In a bold step to combat pollution and water scarcity, Delhi is all set to experience artificial rain for the first time.

An ambitious project to weaken or divert hurricanes generated decades of suspicion and disagreement. What did we learn – and will it ever be revived?

A new term keeps popping up in messages from Trump administration scientific agencies — a pledge to restore “gold-standard science.” Many scientists say the opposite is happening. The ...

Six winners were selected from the more than 200 entries submitted to the competition, which showcases the diverse, fascinating and challenging work that scientists carry out all over the world.

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-01398-0 A scientist braving crashing waves to track whales in a northern Norwegian fjord tops a list of winners of Nature' s 2025 Scientist At Work competition.

I recently sat with a young scientist in my office, tears in her eyes, who was asking for advice: Her grant had been canceled by the government. Years of hard work and training seemed to vanish in ...

Harvard scientists will no doubt admire its president’s impressive move to check the Trumpist attempt to take over the University, but some of them will reflect that it is Harvard’s humanists ...

The Irving City Council listens to public comment about a proposed zoning amendment for a Las Vegas Sands Corp. “destination resort” during a meeting, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Irving.

Still, Irving Langmuir would be crushed to see the lowly state of weather modification today. However sophisticated it has grown since 1946, meteorology remains a passive, not active, science.

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school. In a study published ...

Bob Irving, docent who created beloved Chicago Architecture river cruise, dies at 93 His co-docents from the Chicago Architecture Center (the parent company for the cruise) were in awe of Mr ...

Comment Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy' The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...