We’ve been demonizing sunlight for years. A new book by Rowan Jacobsen digs into the science—and says we’ve got it all wrong.

The first is that Earth's landmass is not distributed evenly, with around 68 percent of it being in the northern hemisphere.

The media is saturated with dire findings about the risks of sun exposure. Lost in the noise are the undeniable health benefits of catching rays.

For all of human history, the Sun has served as a great constant in daily life. As this brilliant orb blazes across the sky, it sustaind life, provides harmonious rhythms to our world, and marks the ...

Understanding the true colou of the Sun, along with concepts such as Rayleigh scattering, Earth's atmosphere, sunlight spectrum, and solar science, helps explain why the Sun appears different when ...

Wildfire smoke causes more air pollution than current atmospheric models can predict. A new study by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Chinese Academy ...

Summer is upon us again. Sunlight and warm temperatures encourage us to be outside, soaking in those lovely rays, especially after a long, cold, and gray winter. Studies have shown that exposure to ...

For most of scientific history, chemical elements were identified through materials that could be handled, heated, weighed or ...