In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

When researchers used GPS devices to monitor the nests of Hawaiian honeycreepers, they found dozens of cases of brazen avian burglary.

The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here?s how scientists discovered it.

The creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist in the U.S. takes both seriously and joyfully.

The remora often latches on to the exteriors of larger marine creatures. But sometimes it travels in a more intrusive spot: inside a manta ray?s backside.

The slowed pace of grants by the National Science Foundation, under attack from the White House, could put the United States at a disadvantage with China, the scientists warned.

The U.S. has pressed Argentina and Chile to review two Chinese telescope projects in the Andean deserts. Astronomers are worried about setbacks to research.

Kirsten Beyer was assessing the benefits of improving school playgrounds in Milwaukee. Then her E.P.A. grant was canceled.

Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world?s most celebrated naturalist.

The attack, at a remote uranium mining site in northern Saskatchewan, was only the fourth fatal black bear encounter in the province?s recorded history, officials said.

As the leader of the C.D.C.?s influenza division, she battled to keep up with an ever-changing viral opponent, building a global network of researchers and forecasters.

In a letter to President Trump, the spokesman, Rich Danker, said allowing the sale of flavored e-cigarettes would enhance their appeal to children.

In a dispute over vapes, the president sided with tobacco companies that filled his groups? coffers over his own F.D.A. commissioner, who resigned in protest.

On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up. The stars will do the rest.

Lithuanian officials hope restored peat bogs can reinforce the border in addition to locking away planet-warming carbon.

The agency?s top food official will step in to the role after Dr. Makary privately said he opposed the administration decision to approve flavored vapes.

President Trump chose Cameron Hamilton to direct federal disaster response. As acting head of FEMA last year, he had opposed abolishing the agency and was ousted.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside his department, a sprawling research effort is a top priority.

A study of a few patients, to be presented this week, showed promise for a type of therapy that has already cured some blood cancers.

Though illicit e-cigarettes have flooded in from China, the new policy could allow major tobacco companies to sell from prime shelf space at thousands of stores.

But it has been hard to attract interest in medical interventions for viruses that have not been considered a top public health priority, scientists say.

The Pentagon on Friday released online what it called ?new, never-before-seen? files, dating back decades, related to unidentified flying objects.

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.

A hospital in Manitoba had to postpone a ?limited number of elective surgeries? after ants appeared there for the third time since 2024.

In an unusual move, a North Dakota court said Greenpeace International shouldn?t be allowed to pursue a lawsuit in Europe, where it is based, against the company.

Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, but images and turns of phrase have rekindled anxieties from Covid?s early days.

It may look like vanity, but it?s a debilitating mental health condition.

The initial files are murky images that show what could be anything. The government said more would be released on a rolling basis.

The Bureau of Land Management will allow the use of the spring-loaded traps, which can kill coyotes and other animals that prey on livestock.

A White House task force called for speeding up aid and responding to fewer disasters. But some of its ideas would require action by Congress to become reality.

The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks.

A gradual dimming and brightening when a star passed behind it suggested the mini-Pluto was wrapped in a thin layer of air.

The health agency has been particularly strict in abolishing at-home work, overriding accommodations that were granted years before the pandemic.

More miles of the country?s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.

In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his brain?

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