My weather app says it’s 80 degrees, but that’s a lie. I’m standing on a football field at Portland State University with professor Vivek Shandas, and we can feel intense heat radiating off the grass.

You can’t tell when you’re passing one on the highway, but an electric vehicle may well have a superpower. It charges by plugging into the electric grid, of course, but it might also be able to send ...

You are here because of a single, all-important enzyme. But don’t look inward to find ribulose-­1,5-­bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, known more mercifully ...

The European Union’s cap-and-trade system has long been considered the gold standard for market-based emissions-reduction ...

The city’s summer school program had just begun and that day temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit.  “Even though the ...

As tech companies have built hundreds of hyperscale data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom, they have ...

Brutal price wars among manufacturers have caused solar panel prices to plummet, making renewable energy cheaper than ever.

In remaking USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Labs, Trump is abandoning an agricultural research effort built to benefit the ...

The government of French Polynesia plans to challenge an American startup’s proposal to explore the waters just beyond its maritime borders for seabed mining. “We were approached, but we were not ...

The state has a $25 million deal with a consortium of companies to explore private financing Not everyone is sure it will ...

In northwestern Montana’s Swan Valley, a pile of about 100 small logs, 10 feet long or so, sits neatly stacked, ringed by berry bushes, a few white wildflowers, and towering larch trees. Surrounding ...

Renee Costanzo cranked on the rusty pulley with both hands, watching the greenhouse roof creak open in sections. A breeze of spring air swept over 12,000 seedlings lined up in plastic trays in the ...