Federal defunding of climate research threatens scientists' ability to understand trends that could have devastating results.

As we celebrate Earth Month, we are kicking off a series of retrospectives on National Academies reports and activities ...

The cow dung row in Delhi underscores the erosion of scientific temper in India's educational landscape, writes .

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, struck an alarmist tone about new findings that ...

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

I n early February, Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, claimed the U.S. government was funding “transgender” ...

Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the ...

The team’s model predicted that approximately 103,000 cancers per year – around 5 percent of the 2 million new cancer ...

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and EPA administrator Lee Zeldin join Weijia ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

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