SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research. With recent cuts to National Science Foundation programs and continued uncertainty surrounding the federal research budget,...

NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will embark on her first mission to the International Space Station, serving as an Expedition 76 flight engineer. Burnham will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-30 spacecraft with cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Borisov. Launch is...

"Tom the Young Farmer" tells BBC Radio Shropshire how it's important to check in on his friends. Source link

I'm currently training for a marathon this fall, and today was supposed to be a rest day. Spotify had other plans for me:...

Every exoplanet we've ever found has been, in some sense, invisible. We infer them from a star's wobble, or a fractional dimming as a planet passes in front of it, or...

UK holidaymakers are being warned about a nasty infectious disease called cyclosporiasis that can cause explosive diarrhoea, after a sharp rise in cases.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), external said 67 cases have been reported since April, with many...

NASA interns at Johnson Space Center are applying their talents to real-world projects while working alongside the engineers, scientists, communicators, and innovators advancing human spaceflight. Learn how these students are gaining hands-on experience, contributing to real missions, and preparing to join the nation’s highly skilled and competitive aerospace...

Rob Gutman speaks with Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health and acting director of the CDC, about Dr. Anthony Fauci's actions during the pandemic, the possible origins of COVID-19, vaccines and more. Source link

Against him stand those who think Britain's hostility to cooling has curdled into a type of masochism.David Lawrence, of the Centre for British Progress think tank, puts it plainly: we don't tell people to insulate their homes in winter...