SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

In early spring 2026, a dry, dust-laden wind known as the harmattan swept across northwestern Africa. Cold temperatures, high winds, and blowing dust prompted officials to issue an alert for several regions of Morocco due to the low visibility...

Tomás Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, has been appointed director of...

Vice President J.D. Vance has spent years urging people in the United States to have more babies. With the announcement that he and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child in July, Vance has himself assumed the mantle...

What if a technology could reanimate parts of the body that have lost their connection to the...

When it comes to particle physics, Tova Holmes has been there, done that and got the T-shirt – in...

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir took this photo of an Artemis program patch floating in the International Space Station’s cupola. She posted it on X on March 30, 2026, with the following caption: “Our work on the @Space_Station has provided...

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in...

Available for over a yearA new non-hormonal drug has been approved to treat menopausal hot flushes. It works by regulating the body's cooling signals and is now available on the NHS in England for those who cannot use hormone...

We are what we eat. And in the ocean, most life-forms source their food from phytoplankton. These...

The prime minister says the NHS could lose 1,000 extra training places if resident doctors go ahead with a six-day strike next week. Source link