The current Colorado River negotiations process includes all five of the most common sources of conflict in any process seeking compromise.
March 20, 2026There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
March 13, 2026Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran
March 20, 2026Uber says it will invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian Automotive to help launch up to 50,000 robotaxis
March 19, 2026A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago
March 20, 2026President Donald Trump faces the most daunting question of the Iran war: Will he put U.S. troops on the ground to secure the enriched uranium Tehran could use for nuclear weapons
March 19, 2026The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies
March 20, 2026Federal vaccine panel in disarray after judge blocks changes
March 20, 2026Abnormal heat on the last day of winter continues to set records in the U.S. Southwest
March 20, 2026Brazil now enforces a sweeping new law that aims to make the internet safer for children and teens
March 20, 2026Federal auto regulators have escalated a probe of Tesla after several of its cars crashed while using its self-driving feature, just as CEO Elon Musk prepares to roll out a new model with no steering wheel or pedals
March 19, 2026Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change
March 20, 2026OBX Anglers Club casts a line for the environment
March 20, 2026Trump wants the EPA to stop regulating climate pollution. Blue states have launched a high-stakes legal case against him
March 20, 2026Many aspects of animals that people find beautiful evolved to be attractive to the animals themselves. A new study hints at a common aspect of perception that dates back hundreds of millions of years.
March 20, 2026U.S. regulators on Thursday approved a new higher-dose version of the blockbuster obesity drug Wegovy
March 20, 2026A new study challenges a site that's crucial to our understanding of how people got to the Americas
March 20, 2026Weight-loss treatment is on the verge of a dramatic shift – again
March 19, 2026Sharply swinging oil prices have left consumers feeling the effects of the Iran war and its damage to worldwide energy production
March 10, 2026American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline’s flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails
March 19, 2026Newly discovered ‘hell heron’ adds evidence in longstanding dinosaur debate
March 19, 2026Black patients were less likely to receive higher doses. This may reflect inequities in health care or misconceptions among patients that higher doses are unsafe.
March 10, 2026A Nordic nation is the world’s happiest country for the ninth year in a row
March 19, 2026The latest World Happiness Report 2026 says that heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people
March 19, 2026Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.
March 19, 2026In the face of little information, or misinformation, about the war in Iran, media literacy can prove a valuable tool to assess what’s happening on the ground.
March 19, 2026The US health insurance system requires that people make strategic and often risky decisions about how much health insurance they can afford and how much coverage they might need.
March 19, 2026Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting food as medicine, but experts say he's overstating what diet can do for serious illness
March 19, 2026A new study linking Pittsburgh’s air pollution to thousands of deaths each year has been published just as the EPA moves to weaken pollution standards.
March 19, 2026There’s lots of copper in the ground, but demand is already outstripping usable supply – and the shortfall is likely to get worse.
March 19, 2026A new study says the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll is much higher than official counts, and that there were disparities in which deaths were missing from those tallies
March 19, 2026Base pay rose as intended, but the drivers’ total compensation, including tips, didn’t increase.
March 19, 2026Carbon dioxide levels are higher than humans have ever experienced. It could be changing our blood chemistry
March 19, 2026A tiny desert community in Southern California has tied the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S. The 108 degree day in North Shore, California, came amid a record-breaking winter heat wave in the Southwest that will stretch into the weekend and could produce even higher temperatures
March 19, 2026Suspending the Jones Act will increase the supply of fuel by allowing foreign-flagged ships to transport oil between US ports, which should eventually educe gas prices.
March 19, 2026Video game fans are responding with criticism and comedy to Nvidia's latest version of its AI technology that boost performance and graphics
March 19, 2026Analyzing 20 million recorded mosquito flight paths revealed the mathematical rules behind how these tiny predators move and zero in on their human targets.
March 19, 2026AI probe of aviation close calls leads FAA to limit how helicopters can fly around busy airports
March 19, 2026Warsaw Zoo has created a new emergency drop-off system that gets injured birds treated fast
March 18, 2026Helping patients navigate disability outside the clinic is critical to rehabilitation for physical conditions. People with psychiatric conditions can benefit from the same philosophy.
March 18, 2026Air traffic controllers will now use radar to ensure that helicopters maintain a safe distance from arriving and departing airplanes in the wake of last year’s fatal midair collision near Washington, D.C. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that recent near-misses show that previous guidelines for pilots to maintain visual separation between helicopters and airplanes have failed to provide adequate protection around busy airports
March 18, 2026Heart benefits fade after stopping GLP-1 medications
March 18, 2026Proposed 'Cherish Act' would give residents more say on environmental decisions
March 18, 2026Extreme weather conditions from coast to coast put more than half the U.S. in the path of rough conditions
March 16, 2026STEM class develops tool for wheelchair users
March 18, 2026Word of the Week: Denying the enemy ‘quarter’ may sound like tough talk, but it would be a war crime
March 18, 2026Grubhub drone food delivery to begin in New Jersey with pilot program. Here's how it works.
March 18, 2026Americans still dig French bulldogs, retrievers and German shepherds
March 18, 2026Some new findings show that AI has certain benefits, such as reducing barriers for students with learning disabilities. But overall, more evidence is needed to understand how AI influences learning.
March 18, 2026Medical imaging contains a veritable wealth of information that is often missed. One way this can change is for patients to ask their doctors what more they can learn from their image results.
March 18, 2026An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers
March 18, 2026US Postal Service will run out of cash within a year without Congress’ help, postmaster warns
March 18, 2026Becky O’Brien always wanted to work with ocean life, but she didn’t realize she’d be able to do the job in the middle of the Las Vegas desert
March 18, 2026A federal judge has for now halted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest vaccine moves, disrupting his push to remake U.S. immunization policy
March 18, 2026A 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles per hour on Tuesday broke apart in a thunderous boom that startled residents who feared an explosion
March 17, 2026Brain aging slowed by over 2 years with unique diet
March 18, 2026A rare March heat wave is pushing San Francisco close to 90 degrees and setting records across the West
March 18, 2026New company plans to use AI to help fire teams detect and respond to wildfires earlier
March 18, 2026US judge blocks Kennedy’s efforts to overhaul US vaccine policy
March 17, 2026Rare fireball spotted over eastern US caused a sonic boom
March 18, 2026A retired general vanished from his home. An unseasonably warm spring is making him harder to find
March 17, 2026Warming winters are making ice thinner and less predictable, leading to more drownings as people fall through while fishing, hunting and recreating on frozen waters
March 17, 2026Japanese atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori has died at age 88
March 17, 2026Product reformulations are common in the food industry, and they can be done well, or poorly. Who remembers Doritos with olestra?
March 16, 2026Potentially toxic ‘forever chemicals’ may harm kids during critical period for bone development
March 17, 2026The war in Iran has cut off diplomatic efforts to limit the country’s development of nuclear weapons. Securing that material and equipment in other ways would be difficult and dangerous.
March 17, 2026Assuming that sex is the key factor defining physical ability may undersell what many athletes are capable of.
March 17, 2026Chatbots tend to produce solid writing, but their prose largely reflects a single, uniform voice.
March 17, 2026False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool to prevent and treat it.
March 17, 2026From beetles to sustainable packaging – one failure in the lab led to a new line of promising research.
March 17, 2026Extraordinary, climate change-fueled heat wave envelops the West with mounting consequences
March 17, 2026Health officials say seven people in three states, including children, have been sickened by E
March 17, 2026Flyers face hourslong lines as TSA agents quit amid first weekend without full pay
March 16, 2026A sprawling storm is sweeping across the US, bringing a significant severe weather threat from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast, and blizzard conditions are threatening parts of the Midwest. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has the forecast.
March 15, 2026Sprawling storm drops feet of snow, knocks out power with high winds and disrupts thousands of flights
March 15, 2026Scientists say marijuana doesn’t ease anxiety or other mental health conditions
March 17, 2026A federal judge in Boston has blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and says U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in revamping a key vaccine advisory committee
March 17, 2026Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday elaborated on his vision for keeping his company at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom that he predicted will produce a $1 trillion backlog in orders within the next year
March 17, 2026Paul R. Ehrlich will be remembered as a scientist whose books about population and threats to the environment shaped the idea of limited growth in the modern era.
March 16, 2026Retired Air Force major general missing for weeks once led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories
March 15, 2026The world’s most valuable company just sent another signal that AI agents are going to be everywhere
March 17, 2026University of Maryland researchers create device to track how often people fart
March 17, 2026NASA technology could help Utah water managers better understand snowpack
March 17, 2026The hunt for a mythicized fossil hot spot took a team of researchers on a journey through the Sahara Desert.
March 16, 2026Kids made lava lamps, built engines and more at this successful STEM Family Night
March 17, 2026Boy is the first U.S. pediatric patient to get new sleep apnea device
March 17, 2026Inside the AI companion lawsuits: Man believed Google chatbot was his “AI wife”
March 16, 2026Researchers say the discovery of the oldest known recordings of whale sounds could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate
March 16, 2026Two dead, 11 others infected in meningitis outbreak linked to English university
March 16, 2026Meet the 9-year-old author inspiring kids to love sea turtles
March 16, 2026Teens are turning to AI for nearly everything. But diet information may be a big risk
March 16, 2026Climbing stairs has been increasingly ingrained in exercise guidance, but it can sometimes be hard to find a place to do it
March 16, 2026Plants changed the atmosphere, built soil and created ecosystems that allowed animals like us to thrive. But first they had to make their way from the water to the land.
March 16, 2026From World War II to the Apollo era, the space shuttle program and today’s privately developed commercial rockets, the landscape of spaceflight has changed dramatically.
March 16, 2026For many adults, anxiety may be the only visible symptom. When it fades, underlying ADHD, which may have been masked for years, finally becomes clear.
March 16, 2026A pilot program in Los Angeles reduced the rate of homelessness among homeless people with pets.
March 16, 2026Africa’s great divide: Why the continent’s split is so exciting for science
March 16, 2026How Anthropic may benefit from its fight with Trump
March 16, 2026A powerful storm chain has brought blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest, with dangerous winds elsewhere and the threat of severe storms heading east
March 15, 2026North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has observed a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems to examine the country’s war deterrence
March 15, 2026Powerful winds and extreme weather are knocking out power, damaging property, and fueling wildfires across parts of the United States
March 14, 2026Trump seeks to replace White House visitor screening center with underground facility
March 15, 2026The massive sewage pipe that ruptured and leaked millions of gallons of raw waste into the Potomac River has returned to operation after the completion of emergency repairs
March 14, 2026Three acts of ideologically inspired violence in the past week in the United States have laid bare the heightened terrorism threat unfolding against the backdrop of the war with Iran
March 14, 2026North Korea on Saturday has fired about 10 ballistic missiles toward the eastern sea, South Korea’s military says, staging its own show of force as the rival South conducts a joint military exercise with the United States
March 14, 2026Millions more people may need to start cholesterol-lowering medications as young as their 30s. Here’s why
March 14, 2026The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow
March 13, 2026The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment
March 14, 2026Thousands of snow geese touch down at a Pennsylvania reservoir each spring, turning sunrise into a loud, swirling liftoff that draws big crowds
March 13, 2026As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well
March 13, 2026Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races
March 13, 2026Using magnesium supplements for sleep is all the rage. What to know
March 13, 2026The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request for new warnings on antidepressant drugs, and that's presenting an unusual conflict of interest at the agency
March 05, 2026In addition to watching out for missile and drone attacks, mariners in conflict zones need to be on guard for GPS spoofing and other cyberattacks. The stakes are high and mariners are ill-prepared.
March 13, 2026Rather than generating climate-warming emissions and wasting nutrients and energy, food waste can become a resource if processed in sewage treatment plants.
March 13, 2026The war on terror is among the Middle East conflicts that sparked a rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discriminatory incidents in the US.
March 13, 2026Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it’s an important line of research.
March 13, 2026People typically die from progressive supranuclear palsy within 7 to 10 years. There is currently no specialized treatment or effective screening for this neurodegenerative disease.
March 13, 2026AI is exhausting workers so much, researchers have dubbed the condition ‘AI brain fry’
March 13, 2026Alpine monitors are reporting that all but two of Austria’s 96 glaciers have retreated over the last two years and say such a “dramatic development” highlights the impact of climate change
March 13, 2026FBI involved in search for retired Air Force major general missing for nearly 2 weeks
March 12, 2026A wildflower in California reveals a newly documented evolutionary process
March 13, 2026The Trump administration is suing California over the state's nation-leading vehicle emission standards
March 13, 2026Anthropic’s Claude is helping the US military choose targets to strike in Iran, but responsibility for the accuracy, strategy and ethics of the decisions rests with humans.
March 11, 2026NASA has cleared its moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs
March 13, 2026This stowaway truly was sly as a fox
March 12, 2026With spring still a week away, Southern California is seeing a burst of summerlike heat, and forecasters warn that it raises the risk of heat illness
March 12, 2026Arkansas Game and Fish Commission seeks public help to protect endangered species
March 13, 2026A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, frozen in their final moments
March 12, 2026Oil and gasoline prices are rising as the war in Iran intensifies and other global conflicts affect supply
March 12, 2026How a man developed an app that's giving people with ALS their voice back
March 13, 2026Mom who gave birth after kidney failure reunites with hospital staff ahead of transplant
March 13, 2026Political content on social media finds you even if you’re not looking for it, and it tends to do so through a sensationalized and emotionally charged lens.
March 03, 2026After 52 years, brutal rape and murder on Long Island is finally solved, police say
March 13, 2026Why does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brag and gloat in his statements about the Iran war? In the MAGA media world, war is a game, a test of masculine fortitude.
March 09, 2026Tracking destructive and deadly tornadoes in the US, in maps and charts
July 02, 2024El Niño could be here soon, bringing wild weather and a hotter climate
March 10, 2026Concerns about shortages of interceptor missiles in the conflict between the US and Iran highlight the challenges of defending against missiles and drones.
March 12, 2026As devices get smarter, families and communities bear a heavier burden of technology caregiving for older adults.
March 12, 2026Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.
March 12, 2026Your daily walk matters in more ways than you think
March 12, 2026Google Maps will depend more heavily on artificial intelligence to help people figure out where they want to go and the best way to get there as part of a major redesign unveiled Thursday
March 12, 2026China doesn’t want to catch up with the US in tech. It aims to lead
March 12, 2026Say goodbye to spring — a major weather pattern shift is coming
March 12, 2026From wearable samplers to passive environmental monitoring, new research is changing how scientists observe chemical exposure – without invasive sampling.
March 09, 2026NASA spacecraft makes an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth
March 11, 2026Southern California is seeing a burst of summerlike heat, and forecasters warn that it raises the risk of heat illness
March 12, 2026CDC vaccine committee drops push to stop recommending mRNA Covid-19 shots, for now
March 12, 2026An old NASA science satellite is no more
March 12, 2026There’s a new leader at billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropic firm
March 12, 2026DNA from a tiny but mighty insect could help reveal the timeline for prehistoric humans
March 11, 2026Authorities say a former NFL player who is charged with murder in his girlfriend’s death in Tennessee asked an AI bot for advice before he called 911
March 12, 2026‘Betrayed’: Families are dealing with dashed hopes after pivot on autism treatment
March 11, 2026What to know about CDC’s new polio alert
March 12, 2026First recorded sighting of once near-extinct swan species
March 12, 2026King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual
March 12, 2026Microsoft and a group of retired military leaders are backing Anthropic in court to block the Trump administration from labeling the AI company a supply chain risk
March 11, 2026Spelman College students developing AI tool designed to help people talk to their plants
March 11, 2026"Call A Boomer" payphone at Boston University connects students, seniors 3,000 miles apart
March 11, 2026As the Iran war widens, experts say the Middle East’s real strategic weak point may be water — not oil
March 08, 2026A surprising percentage of produce from the nation’s largest supplier contains ‘forever’ pesticides
March 11, 2026The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains.
March 09, 2026Fishermen want a voice in the science that controls their future
March 11, 2026Researchers use text and image generators to design culturally relevant educational content for young children.
March 11, 2026The Trump administration is leaning away from dramatic funding cuts and settlements with universities, and more toward standard tactics to try to limit funding.
March 11, 2026The purportedly unique and local feel of coffee shops has instead been homogenized into a singular, palatable aesthetic.
March 11, 2026People and computers perceive the world differently, which can lead AI to make mistakes no human would. Researchers are working on how to bring human and AI vision into alignment.
March 11, 2026GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy aid in weight loss by suppressing appetite. Researchers are looking next at how the body expends energy – including through fat.
March 11, 2026Most tap water in the U.S. is safe to drink
March 11, 2026Farming areas that use lots of fertilizers and pesticides stood out for the swift and accelerating decline of their bird populations.
March 11, 2026At least 2 people killed as dangerous storms tear through central US with tornadoes and huge hail
March 11, 2026Photos appear to show US Tomahawk missile fragments at site of deadly Iran school strike
March 11, 2026Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake troops: AI videos and images of Iran war spread widely on social media
March 11, 2026Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the government pushes for atomic energy use
March 11, 2026North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter have observed tests of strategic cruise missiles fired from a warship as North Korea threatened responses to U.S.-South Korean military drills
March 11, 2026Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is shooting lava fountains up to 1,000 feet, and falling ash and volcanic fragments are forcing temporary closures on the Big Island
March 11, 2026Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano say their meeting on May 16 is the biggest fight that can be made in mixed martial arts, and they’re both thrilled to end their lengthy retirements for the long-awaited showdown
March 11, 2026Once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed, asteroid 2024 YR4’s path is now clearer
March 10, 2026A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure
March 10, 2026Young students are still struggling to bounce back academically from the pandemic, even though many were babies at the time
March 10, 2026Meta is acquiring Moltbook, a social network where AI agents post and chat with each other
March 11, 2026Trump’s designs for Air Force One echo TWA, US Airways, Obama’s charter and other planes of the past
March 11, 2026Meta just bought the social network for AI bots everyone’s been talking about
March 11, 2026Students build moon-like lab to test robots for future missions
March 11, 2026Penn medical student with rare genetic form of ALS on mission to develop gene therapy
March 11, 2026Baltimore brings out sharpshooters to reduce deer population
March 11, 2026Fact check: Trump’s latest false, unproven and contradictory claims about the Iran war
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