SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

And the winner is… the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Utah Student Robotics Club won the grand prize Artemis Award on May 22 for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for...

Getting federal approval for permits to build bridges, wind farms, highways and other major infrastructure projects has long been a complicated and time-consuming process. Despite growing calls from both parties for Congress and federal agencies...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak.On April 15, 2025, Espenak announced on his Facebook page that he had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, his health was declining rapidly, and...

Hydrogen has the potential to be a climate-friendly fuel since it doesn’t release carbon dioxide when used...

Dominic HughesHealth CorrespondentAnnabel RackhamHealth ReporterGetty ImagesNew cases of the sexually transmitted infection syphilis have risen again in England, continuing a trend dating back to the early 2000s.While the overall number of people diagnosed with gonorrhoea has fallen, there has...

Mark Poynting and Jonah FisherBBC Climate & ScienceGettyThe water sector in England and Wales is failing and needs stronger regulation to better protect billpayers and the environment, according to the interim findings of a landmark review.The independent Water Commission,...

Marie-Louise Connolly, Denise O'Connor and David HunterBBC SpotlightBBCConsultant perinatal psychiatrist, Dr Jo Black, who is originally from Cookstown, was instrumental in setting up a mother and baby unit in Devon.An eight-bed unit, the layout and decor of Jasmine Lodge...

The intersection of art, science, and technology presents a unique, sometimes challenging, viewpoint for both scientists and...

There might be an upside to the loss of coral reefs. Their decline would mean oceans can absorb up...

In the United States, one in three people face memory loss or dementia.In life, you never know what cards you'll be dealt. Linde Jacobs lost her mother in 2022, which makes being a mother to...