SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying sensors, laptops, and carefully engineered payloads they have spent months preparing.  The goal is...

Three large wildfires raced through neighborhoods in and around Spokane, Washington, the weekend of Aug. 1, 2026, destroying at least 600 homes and other structures and threatening many more. Tens of thousands of people, including...

To avoid ending up with a less committed mate, some female birds listen for red flags in their suitor’s song.Male pied flycatchers change their song after mating, and females use these song features to tell if a male is...

The charity said the initiative an new equipment would "improve access to breastfeeding support, remove financial barriers for families, and help mothers across the island continue breastfeeding for longer if they choose to do so". It added it was...

Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to...

If you build a house in the United States today, there’s a good chance you’ll be living under the dictates of a neighborhood homeowners association – roughly two out of every three new homes are...

Independent investigations or reviews into health services have cost nearly £188,000 over five years, the government has revealed.Guernsey's Health & Social Care (HSC) President George Oswald said 20 reviews had been either commissioned by or on behalf of the...

The open letter was signed by a number of figures who have played concerts or broadcast from the observatory, including guitarist Johnny Marr, electronica pioneer Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk, the bands New Order, Elbow and Doves, comedian Dara Ó...

To leverage the scalability of standard fabrication techniques while achieving the precision needed for handling molecules, the MIT researchers developed a decoupled, two-step approach.They first fabricate all the device components using standard semiconductor manufacturing, then incorporate the molecular material...

Beavers, often described as "ecosystem engineers", were once widespread in Britain but were hunted to extinction about 400 years ago.In 2015, the semi-aquatic mammals were reintroduced to the wild in the River Otter, Devon, and in February this year...