SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Around the world, 20 percent of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths...

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Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.No matter where you live, NSF-supported research...

On a quiet plot of land in rural New Mexico, Jeff Deming feels like he's really living, once again."Mentally, it's day and night," he said.He's able to do the things that make him happy, like...

Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London After a busy few months exploring the outer slopes of the Jezero crater rim at an area named “Witch Hazel Hill,” the Perseverance Science Team was eyeing another sample of...

China, the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, has seen a slight decline in those emissions over the past...

Helen BriggsBBC environment correspondent•@hbriggsGwyndaf HughesBBC climate and science teamGetty ImagesLucy Love, a garden birdwatch ambassador for the BTO, knows the blackbirds in her gardens by sight and has grown fond of them."They're beautiful birds – intelligent, friendly and they...

In the heart of Alaska’s winter, where the night sky stretches endlessly and the aurora dances across the sky in a display of ethereal beauty, nine undergraduate students from across the United States were about to embark on a...

The head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a handful of teams at the agency had their layoff notices rescinded Tuesday, multiple officials say, and several worker safety programs that had...

An exceptionally preserved specimen of the ancient bird Archaeopteryx offers the most detailed window yet into the evolution of flight, researchers report online May 14 in Nature.The remarkable preservation of the specimen — the 14th Archaeopteryx ever unearthed —...