
This chart, from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, shows the number of daily record temperature highs and lows set each...

2010 has tied 2005 for the title of warmest year on record, but don't expect it to hold the position atop the charts for long.

Crap Caper: Chicago's illegal cache of human waste is tomorrow's gardening gold.
In an undisclosed storage area in Chicago, Nance Klehm has a...

The writer and environmentalist Stiv Wilson is on a mission to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean, and what he—and the rest of...

Double-wrapping is important, but your compost pile could easily double as a crock pot, according to the National Association of Realtors.

It only took a few decades, but health professionals are now calling on advertisers to stop photoshopping models into oblivion.

Would you donate money to help a sick friend in need? Here's how people are crowd-funding medical care. This might come in handy.

A new training program is educating teachers the way medical schools educate doctors. Can it help close America's persistent achievement gap?

I'm not sure any medical study could actually convince me to change my longstanding opposition to circumcising newborns.

The medical potential is great. The problem is MDMA's reputation.

Data sharing is driving medical care, and we should all opt in.

The dark-horse GOP presidential candidate is supporting medical-marijuana proponents in Michigan, who have a tough road ahead.

The daytime TV veteran wants to make medical marijuana less shady with a new "high-end" dispensary in Sacramento.

The Society For News Design has released their annual list of the best designed newspapers in the world. None are American, or in English, but...

A single setting in Microsoft Office wastes a small state's worth of trees every year. Plus Big Thinker Cameron Sinclair.

The Economist wants to expand in America. But the "newspaper" may get stabbed in the back by the invisible hand it loves so much.It turns out...

Ross Mirkarimi is making sure no one is left holding the bag.

It's great to see a seemingly limited medium blown wide open by a talented artist.Peter Callesen does for paper-cuts what Edward Scissorhands did...