Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, in the late 1980s. Fast forward a few decades and the web has over 5.5 billion users. It ...

The National Science Foundation will sunset funding for a $20 million artificial intelligence institute designed to improve weather forecasting, a move that could sever a pipeline of scientists from ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic ...

The University Library has decided not to renew its licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports). This means that, as of 1 January 2026, UU staff, ...

Memorials for some of the more than 100 people killed in July 2025's catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas, which was intensified by climate change. Credit: source/credit info: World Central ...

More than 85 veteran climate scientists have pushed back against a Trump administration report downplaying the severity of climate change, submitting more than 400 pages in public comments to the ...

When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the public. Palantir Technologies, however, has attracted more and more attention over the ...

Feel like summers are hotter than they used to be? It's not just your imagination. Climate researchers say that average annual temperatures around the country have been trending upwards for the past ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)’s Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS) program, the first of its kind in the United States, became part of the university’s Lally School of Management ...

As climate disasters intensify, the Trump administration is not just denying science, it is actively censoring it. Pallavi Sethi examines how efforts to erase climate data in the US undermine ...