SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental exposures can also contribute to the disease.In an advance that could help prevent some...

Rain may bring disease-carrying mosquitoes. But the lack of it could have been a factor that led to the first urban yellow fever outbreak in Brazil in decades.In 2015, an El Niño powered an abnormally strong drought in central...

As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence...

If you use ChatGPT on your Mac, and you have the right type of account, you'll soon be able to start asking your...

Necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammation of the intestine that mostly affects premature babies, can strike with almost no warning. But a quick scan using only infrared and visible light could someday detect the condition, a new study suggests.Within the...

The UK's electric vehicle (EV) sales target could be cut after the government launched a review following pressure from car makers.Currently, manufacturers must ensure a percentage of the cars they sell each year are zero emissions, with the target...

Week in images: 10-14 August 2026 Discover our week through the lens Source link

A record 332 million people visited U.S. national parks in 2024, followed by roughly 323 million in 2025.That’s a lot of love for national parks and lands. You might think that such big numbers of...

Explanation: On August 12, the Moon's shadow reached out to touch our fair planet. Beginning in the Arctic Ocean, it swept along a narrow track that led the dark lunar umbra across parts of Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic, Portugal,...

NASA’s 737 aircraft was painted this week in Oklahoma as it progresses with modifications for use as a reduced gravity test aircraft for the agency. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, took ownership of the aircraft from...