SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Ohio as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 10:15 a.m. EDT on Wednesday,...

On 14 August, exhausted UN delegates filed into a windowless plenary hall, after hours of intensive debate and little...

Rising global temperatures affect human activity in many ways. Now, a new study illuminates an important dimension...

Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have...

Our brain may not be as capable of rewiring following an amputation as we thought, which could have serious...

Like other big tech events, Made by Google is supposed to be Google's chance to show off its latest hardware to the public....

The next astronauts headed to the moon are preparing for all contingencies as their mission approaches, and they recently completed a nighttime rehearsal of launch procedures.NASA's Artemis 2 mission — the first-ever crewed mission of the Orion capsule and...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of the first CRISPR-Cas9–based gene therapy has marked a...

A person has tested positive for plague after possibly being bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area of California, public health officials say. El Dorado County's Public Health Division...

In June, at a conference set in the picturesque Italian town of Campagna, south-east of Naples, two physicists in...