SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Climate change may threaten North America’s iconic mass monarch butterfly migration. Every fall, millions of monarchs (Danaus plexippus) travel thousands of kilometers over North America as they leave their breeding grounds in Canada and the United States for wintering grounds...

Mas Subramanian accompanies his wife, Rajeevi, to art museums all over the world. But, until fairly recently, he rarely...

Certain nutrients critical for human health lack the shelf life needed to span multi-year missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA’s BioNutrients-3 is part of an experiment series testing ways to use microorganisms to produce these nutrients in...

Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and number crunchers. They are also storytellers, placing data within a broader scientific and societal context. How they tell these stories matters.In our work as ecologists, we find that...

More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these places...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?The Earth system is a vast web of...

Studying gene expression in a cancer patient’s cells can help clinical biologists understand the cancer’s origin and...

Applications 25/02/2026 242 views 11 likesWith launch planned for later this year, testing is well underway to ensure the MetOp Second Generation-B1 weather satellite is ready for its life in orbit around Earth. These checks include verifying that its spectacular...

The longevity benefits of fasting or taking rapamycin are more like a lottery than a sure bet. The interventions...

NASA's Artemis II Live Views from Kennedy Space Center - YouTubeWatch On NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket off the launch pad on Wednesday (Feb. 25) to deal with a glitch, and you can watch the long...