SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

As people age, they may sleep for shorter periods and wake up more frequently during the night. In addition to those disruptions, MIT researchers have now discovered that a process responsible for flushing waste from the brain during sleep...

Franciscana dolphins are one of the most elusive dolphin species in the world. They’re quite small — measuring only about five feet at full size — and they spend most of their time living in the often murky coastal...

Follow usAdd us as a preferred source on GoogleNewsletterSubscribe to our newsletterSpaceX has a message for itself, and for the spacecraft set to make history today (Nov. 13): Don't panic.The company's Starship megarocket will conduct its 15th test flight...

While rising global prosperity increases energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions, promising low-carbon technologies offer reason for optimism. Eric Toone, Breakthrough Energy’s chief technical officer, gave this assessment in his keynote address at the recent Energizing@MIT, the annual research...

It was the climate movement’s unifying slogan for the past decade: “Keep 1.5 Alive.”The tagline referred to the central ambition of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, in which almost every country pledged to try to limit global warming to...

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Three days after last week’s “blue wave” election, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a warning on X to anyone suspecting his Make America Healthy Again movement had been weakened. “It’s time to unleash the Kraken,” he wrote.The...

Congressional Democrats have alerted more than 60 companies, individuals and agencies that they are potential targets of investigations into the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific research, rollback of environmental protections and pursuit of unorthodox business deals.The letters reveal where...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is about to start a twofold mission to a twofold asteroid.On November 4, after more than two years trekking through space, the spacecraft finally came within 30 kilometers of space rocks named Didymos...

As communities around the world shore up their infrastructure in anticipation of one of the most powerful El Niños on record in late 2026 and early 2027, they need to think about rising health risks,...