SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Flu vaccines that take a page from the COVID-19 vaccine platform are making progress in clinical trials.In a phase 3 trial, Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed a traditional vaccine, researchers report in the Nov. 20 New England Journal of...

One of the things the James Webb Space Telescope revealed to us is a class of small, distant galaxies in the very early Universe. Their light has been stretched into the...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have...

When Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in October 2025, it left a trail of destruction. The Category 5 storm damaged buildings in Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, snapped power lines and cut off entire neighborhoods...

Action is needed now to reduce ultra-processed food (UPF) in diets worldwide because of their threat to health, say international experts in a global review of research.They say the way we eat is changing - with a move away...

Alyssa Yockey supports the International Space Station from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston as a flight lead at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is one of the world’s largest indoor pools where astronauts and support...

If there was one thing Cameron Halliday SM ’19, MBA ’22, PhD ’22 was exceptional at during...

Apple dropped iOS 26.1 on Nov. 3, introducing some small but meaningful changes to iPhones. But after changing how alarms work, and adding...

Anchorage-dependent cells are cells that require physical attachment to a solid surface, such as a culture dish, to...

More than 80 per cent of people worldwide now live in towns and cities, according to a major United...