SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a rut while cooped up all day at a nine-to-five job, or just felt stressed about work, school or life in general, you’re not alone. Hearing “just go...

It’s no secret: This year has been a bad one so far for severe thunderstorms around Pittsburgh. In fact, it has been quite an active season throughout the Ohio Valley and a large part of...

The Jodrell Bank Observatory, which has housed the UK's largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its funding and could now close, the BBC understands.The observatory and its network of telescopes have been pivotal to the country's study...

Andy Burnham has told the BBC "the NHS will collapse" if social care is not reformed but he said he could not put a timeline on changes.In his first major interview since becoming prime minister, Burnham said he would...

Burnham first proposed a universal system of social care in England in 2009 when he was health secretary under Gordon Brown. He has vowed to spend political capital on the issue as prime minister.However, he is not the first...

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the premier exoplanet-hunting space telescope once it launches sometime in the 2040s. This large infrared/optical/ultraviolet space telescope will be the first observatory specifically designed...

A tiny microbe has been making a lot of Americans sick. Really sick. Just ask Jessica Mallard. "I wasn't feeling well. The pain in my stomach was, like, unbearable," she said.The parasite is called cyclospora,...

Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m.,...

According to the charity, about 80% of UK butterfly species have declined over the past 50 years due to factors including habitat loss, pollution and climate change.Species that can be recorded during the survey include the Peacock, Holly Blue,...

SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket on a critical 13th test flight late Friday, but there was no triskaidekaphobia on this mission.The July 24 test launch, Space's Starship Flight 13 mission, sent a towering rocket the size of...