SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Runners love data. Sure, tracking your running progress is essential for improvement, motivation, and achieving your goals—but more importantly, it's just plain neat.I...

“Manufacturing is the engine of society, and it is the backbone of robust, resilient economies,” says John...

Just one weekly puff from an asthma-like inhaler might one day protect you from the viral infections that make...

The last thing I want to do after a bad night of sleep is exercise, even though I know...

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As a child, I remember gazing up at the stars and dreaming of spacecraft journeying to distant worlds, those classic images of rockets blasting off toward unknown frontiers filled my imagination....

A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely – and more directly – than previously understood.The southwestern United States has been in a historic...

Around the world, about 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead to anemia, impaired...

If you think last week's decision by the federal government to halt $500 million in funding for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again. These types of vaccines use messenger RNA, or...

Earth’s atmosphere contains carbon dioxide, which is good for life on Earth – in moderation. Plants use CO2 as the source of the carbon they build into leaves and wood via photosynthesis. In combination with...