SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Alongside extensive reductions to the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Trump administration has asked the agency to cut $2.9 billion of its spending on contracts, according to three federal officials with knowledge of the...

The nation’s most polluting coal-burning power plant has asked President Trump to exempt it from stricter limits on hazardous air pollution after the administration recently invited companies to apply for presidential pollution waivers by email.The aging Colstrip power plant...

C. Cem Tasan has been appointed director of MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), effective March 15. The POSCO...

This image shows Webb’s recent observation of the asteroid 2024 YR4 using both its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). Data from NIRCam shows reflected light, while the MIRI observations show thermal light.On 8 March 2025, the NASA/ESA/CSA...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming protostars and insights into the impact of...

You don’t need to exercise every day to be healthy. Squeezing in at least 150 minutes of moderate to...

On the morning of May 10 in Mexico, it's not uncommon to overhear the sound of children waking up and serenading the household. The crooning is a classic tradition for Mother's Day, or El Día de La Madre as...

Ewan GawneBBC News, ManchesterJessica MathersMs Mathers said the couple had been "stuck not knowing what to do" as they waited for the outcome of their appeal, which had made it difficult for her to find anything other than temporary...

It’s not just the high price of eggs or the rising cost of housing that is contributing to Americans’ unhappiness over the cost of living. Health care remains stubbornly unaffordable for millions of people, according to a new survey...

Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered by Health and...