SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

This is a two-part series on Parkinson’s, detailing the daily struggles with the disease, new treatment programs and how patients’ lives have been impacted by emerging therapies. You can read the first part here.The night before he had brain...

NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agency’s federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in Southern California at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to ensure continued accountability and strong value for...

Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated May 22, 2026 to include a retirement. NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes position the agency to better deliver on...

If the emotional rollercoaster of global politics feels overwhelming, the findings of a new study might help to explain...

Houses with screens, rainwater-collection systems and cement floors could be a powerful tool in the fight against childhood diseases in Africa.Children living in these specially designed houses in Tanzania had fewer cases of malaria, diarrhea and respiratory diseases than...

Corpus Christi, Texas, home to the nation’s largest oil export hub, and its surrounding Coastal Bend area are in a water shortage that has residents, businesses, and industry carefully monitoring their water use and worried...

Diphtheria is surging in Australia for the first time since widespread vaccination began in the 1930s. The country has recorded...

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it underpins daily meals for billions of people.But the same flooded soils that help...

The sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in central Algeria is featured in these images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.The images show the extraordinary landscape within the Tanezrouft Basin, one of the most desolate parts of...

Nik Sandu points to a graph on the whiteboard in a seventh-grade science class. “According to the graph,...