Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann shared half of this year's Nobel Prize, and Giorgio Parisi was awarded the other half.Fernando Vergara | AP The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded this year for work on finding order in chaos — some made by humans and some found in nature. Half ...

A bird balances on a temporary floating barrier used to contain oil that seeped into Talbert Marsh, home to about 90 bird species, after a 126,000-gallon oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif., over the weekend.Mario Tama | Getty Images Updated October 5, 2021 at 7:15 PM ET ...

NASA's new telescope bears the name of James Webb (center), an influential figure who was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to lead the space agency during the '60s. But some astronomers say discrimination against gay and lesbian government employees during his tenure should preclude him from having a telescope ...

Long COVID patient Gary Miller receives treatment from physiotherapist Joan Del Arco at the Long COVID Clinic at King George Hospital in Ilford, London, in May.Kirsty Wigglesworth | AP Symptoms of COVID-19 persist or recur months after diagnosis for more than a third of all people who get the illness, ...

A screen grab from Brandon Warren's video of a fireball meteor taken on Sept. 24 at 7:40 p.m. in Willow Spring, N.C.Brandon Warren It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... fireball? A video newly released by the American Meteor Society shows a fireball moving across the sky above ...

Fossilized human footprints shown at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. According to a report published in the journal Science, the impressions indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago.National Park Service via AP The question of when humans first migrated to North ...

A high-tech, five-layer sunshield helps the telescope stay at negative 370 degrees Fahrenheit, so it can detect heat signals from very distant objects.Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems In December, NASA will launch the most powerful telescope ever put into space. The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to study planets ...

A 3D microflier next to a pencil tip for scale.Northwestern University It's neither a bird nor a plane, but a winged microchip as small as a grain of sand that can be carried by the wind as it monitors such things as pollution levels or the spread of airborne diseases. ...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg via Getty Images It's time for the global community to "grow up" and deal with the climate change crisis, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told United Nations representatives, urging nations to "listen ...

A bald eagle perches on a tree at Sunset Park in Rock Island, Ill., in March. A new study says that many species of birds increasingly moved into urban areas as human activity waned during the pandemic.Joel Lerner | Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images "Anthropause" is a word scientists have coined ...