The primary thesis of nearly all of Breitbart News climate coverage in 2017 was that a new blog post has documented “proof” that all of global warming is a fraud. In a July 2017 article, that site ...

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Science came out of the lab and touched people’s lives in some awe-inspiring and alarming ways in 2017. Science enthusiasts gathered to celebrate a total solar eclipse, but also to march on behalf of ...

Are major natural disasters on an uptick in 2017 compared to prior years? Government data suggests yes. For the first nine months of 2017, the United States has endured 15 disasters that each cost $1 ...

Throughout 2017, extreme weather events reached epic proportions: In January, the Arctic and Australia suffered serious heat waves that melted ice caps and cut power to 40,000 homes. By February, ...

As 2017 draws to a close, it's time to take a look back at some of the great short science videos of 2017. Through wonderful graphics, animation, filming, scriptwriting, and editing, these videos ...

Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within scholarly research. Each spring faculty ...

2017 was a busy year for science. From the bottom of the world to the bottom of the sea, new discoveries popped up all over the place. Researchers got new tools, doctors got new medicines, and tables ...

If you were overwhelmed by the news in 2017, you aren’t alone. Every day seemed to bring monumental developments in all spheres of current events, from international relations and gender inequality to ...

In what could only be described as a turbulent news year, our most popular stories offered readers a little something different: a sense of wonder. Whether it was experiencing helplessness seeing ...

Scientists reported selectively altering genes in viable human embryos for the first time this year. For nearly five years, researchers have been wielding the molecular scissors known as CRISPR/Cas9 ...

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