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NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free announced Wednesday his retirement, effective Saturday, Feb. 22. As associate administrator, Free has been the senior advisor to NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro and leads NASA’s 10 center directors, as well as the mission...

Mark PoyntingClimate and environment researcherGetty ImagesThe world's glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded under the impact of climate change, according to the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date.Mountain glaciers - frozen rivers of ice – act as a...

NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies above our communities. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides students with opportunities...

The Trump administration on Tuesday cut more than 10 percent of the work force at the National Science Foundation, an independent agency that supports cutting-edge scientific research, adding to the widespread purge of federal workers with probationary status that...

Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved. Words and sentences don’t leave fossils behind for paleontologists to dig up.A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000...

This is episode 2 of The Deep End. Listen to more episodes here.Depression can affect not just the mind, but the body, too. Inner experiences of mental struggles are private. But in this episode, Jon Nelson and another volunteer,...

Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working in his Paris laboratory. It was there that he had some of his greatest scientific triumphs, including experiments that helped confirm germs can cause disease. “Everything gets complicated away from...

Soon, Irene Mekel will need to pick the day she dies.She’s not in any hurry: She quite likes her life, in a trim, airy house in Castricum, a Dutch village by the sea. She has flowers growing in her...

BOSTON — The official theme of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held February 13–15, is “Science Shaping Tomorrow.”The unofficial theme is “uncertainty.”With thousands of scientists, advocates and policy experts in attendance, AAAS is...

Mark Poynting and Erwan RivaultBBC Climate & Verify data journalism teamsGetty ImagesThe world's frozen oceans, which help to keep the planet cool, currently have less ice than ever previously recorded, satellite data shows.Sea-ice around the north and south poles...