Uncertainty from Washington along with staff and budget cuts have created turmoil for the US Forest Service’s fire management efforts.
April 23, 2025
America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.
April 23, 2025
A company that spreads crushed rock on farmers’ fields to draw climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has won the $50 million grand prize in a global competition funded by Elon Musk’s foundation
April 23, 2025
Harvard’s fight with the Trump administration is just getting started. The cost is already high
April 23, 2025
Measles misinformation is spreading in the US, and most aren’t sure what they believe, poll finds
April 23, 2025
Former employees of OpenAI are appealing to the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to halt the company’s move to transfer control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business
April 23, 2025
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history
April 23, 2025
More than four-fifths of the world's coral reef areas have been affected by devastating mass bleaching spurred by record-high ocean temperatures, turning
April 23, 2025
China announced the members of a three-person crew that will be launched to its space station as part of its growing exploration of space
April 23, 2025
Nearly half of Americans live in an area with a failing grade for air pollution, and the problem is only getting worse
April 23, 2025
California Department of Water Resources developing plans to protect SWP infrastructure from invasive golden mussels
April 22, 2025
Nonprofit 'Green Our Planet' transforms local classrooms with hydroponics gardening
April 22, 2025
FDA says it will phase out petroleum-based food dyes, authorize four natural color additives
April 22, 2025
New, 'phenomenal' test for Alzheimer's is now in labs
April 22, 2025
Trump administration minimized federal climate scientists’ findings of record CO2 growth
April 22, 2025
Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move Saturday in Oman to what’s known as the “expert level” — a sign analysts say shows that the talks are moving forward rapidly
April 22, 2025
Teen use of cannabis edibles increases 43% after legalization in Canada, study finds
April 22, 2025
A study of US state legislators found that posting misinformation online was a winning strategy for boosting a politician’s visibility – but not for Democrats.
April 22, 2025
A new exhibition at Colorado State University highlights 100 years of women’s work.
April 22, 2025
Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear
April 22, 2025
A plan to build a nuclear power plant will continue in Myanmar, a war-torn Southeast Asian country partly devastated by a massive earthquake in March, the
April 22, 2025
Poison control calls are rising as more people use psilocybin, study finds
April 21, 2025
Delays in cancer screenings brought on by COVID-19 aren’t making a huge impact on cancer statistics
April 21, 2025
Here’s what happened when I tried the Sam Altman-backed orb face scanner
April 21, 2025
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby
April 21, 2025
Orlando teen develops device to aid visually impaired
April 21, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F
April 21, 2025
Grist reports that rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate prices.
April 16, 2025
Scientists say a newly discovered green comet likely has broken apart and won’t be visible to the naked eye
April 21, 2025
How and when to watch the Lyrid meteor shower
April 21, 2025
Cancer death rates declining, new report says, but diagnosis rates are on the rise for women
April 21, 2025
Human beings don’t have a thick coat of fur like many other mammals do. Scientists think it has to do with something else that comes out of skin: sweat.
April 21, 2025
An analysis of surveys about people’s level of climate concern suggests it isn’t just education alone that shapes views – it’s experiencing rising temperatures that makes the difference.
April 21, 2025
How do you know if the person on the other end of your dating app is a real person or AI? That’s exactly what Sam Altman and the startup “Tools for Humanity” hope to solve with their device, The Orb. It analyzes your face and eyes to verify you’re human. They hope their scans will become required to access a variety of online services.
April 21, 2025
Below are some memorable quotes from Pope Francis, whose death at the age of 88 was announced by the Vatican on Monday.
April 21, 2025
Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile
April 19, 2025
Many in the autism community say RFK Jr. is pushing harmful and regressive rhetoric about who they are
April 19, 2025
The Zurich Zoo says a 19-year-old Asian elephant has given birth to a male calf
April 20, 2025
An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space
April 19, 2025
Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years, study finds
April 20, 2025
Scientists working with the Schmidt Ocean Institute reveal the first footage of two elusive sea animals: the colossal squid and a type of glass squid.
April 19, 2025
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station
April 20, 2025
A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on
April 20, 2025
In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital
April 19, 2025
Nobody knows where whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea, are mating
April 18, 2025
Chemical fingerprints could belong to a signature of life on distant planet
April 19, 2025
Allergy season can be miserable for tens of millions of Americans each year
April 18, 2025
The exoplanet K2-18b could harbor a massive ocean, but scientists will need to study the planet more to see if it’s really likely to host life.
April 18, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron invited scientists from all over the world to come work in France or Europe, as U.S.
April 18, 2025
Republican U.S.
April 18, 2025
A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F
April 18, 2025
Half of US states have reported measles cases this year
April 18, 2025
A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak
April 18, 2025
White House touts Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ theory on new website
April 18, 2025
A new comet appeared in the sky, then likely disintegrated. But it can still be seen
April 18, 2025
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid
April 18, 2025
If an engineer makes an improper assumption while designing something, sometimes the consequences are fatal. An engineering professor explains how to reduce risk.
April 18, 2025
In the battle to slow climate change, local and state governments, as well as citizens, have taken to the courts. Their results have varied, but the cases keep coming.
April 18, 2025
Spring's first meteor shower is reaching its peak
April 18, 2025
Scientists stumble across rare evidence that Earth is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada
April 18, 2025
This notorious West Coast phenomenon fueled historic floods in the East. Another one is on the way
April 18, 2025
Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet
April 17, 2025
New evidence challenges theories on the origin of water on Earth, study suggests
April 17, 2025
The U.S. government released new data this week showing that rates of autism diagnoses among U.S. children reached record highs in 2022.
January 14, 2025
As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right time.
April 17, 2025
A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter
April 17, 2025
Scientists detect signature of life on a distant planet, study suggests
April 17, 2025
A new global survey finds that endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide
April 17, 2025
Walking faster may reduce your risk of abnormal heart rhythms, study finds
April 17, 2025
By Karl Plume, P.J.
April 17, 2025
Large language model AIs can ingest long documents and answer questions about them, but a key question is how well they ‘understand’ individual sentences in the documents.
April 17, 2025
Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers
April 17, 2025
1 heart transplant saves 3 young children in New York City
April 17, 2025
Measles costs are accumulating as funding cuts threaten the outbreak response
April 17, 2025
Experimental GLP-1 pill helped people with diabetes lose weight and lower blood sugar, Eli Lilly says
April 17, 2025
Harvard scientist Dr.
April 17, 2025
iPhones and GPS owe their existence to US government-funded research. What’s at stake with Trump cuts to university funding
April 17, 2025
Bedtime routines aren’t just for toddlers
April 16, 2025
Top NIH nutrition researcher studying ultraprocessed foods departs, citing censorship under Kennedy
April 16, 2025
Harvard researchers say they might have to lay off workers and euthanize research animals due to funding freeze
April 16, 2025
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our
April 16, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F
April 16, 2025
A federal panel of experts on Wednesday recommended an expansion of RSV vaccinations for adults and a new combination shot as another option to protect teens against meningitis
April 16, 2025
The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures
April 16, 2025
Environmental contributors to autism are behind its rising prevalence, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.
April 16, 2025
CDC considers narrowing its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations
April 16, 2025
In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last few years
April 16, 2025
Colossal squid resembles a ‘glass sculpture’ in first footage taken from the deep sea
April 16, 2025
A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible
April 16, 2025
Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new materials. However, there are solutions.
April 16, 2025
In first news conference as HHS secretary, Kennedy says autism is an epidemic in the US
April 16, 2025
The World Health Organization's member countries have agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the international community might face the next global health crisis
April 16, 2025
Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars
April 16, 2025
Stress doesn’t just affect your bladder. It can hijack your overall health
April 16, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s,
April 16, 2025
Solar storm could bring auroras farther south over the US than they typically appear
April 16, 2025
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to universities by the U.S.
April 16, 2025
Salmon migration affected by drug pollution in water from antianxiety medication
April 16, 2025
BIOCAP tiles reimagine seawalls as dynamic, ecologically active systems that have the potential to enhance coastal resilience.
April 16, 2025
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness