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In 2025, the number of children receiving a drug promoted — but unproven — for autism treatment grew, especially toward the end of the year. A new study suggests the late rise was influenced by a Trump administration announcement.At...

Lee esta historia en español aquí.Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the Moon’s South Pole region, NASA scientists say. Published on Aug....

This nose grows. During harsh Japanese winters, long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily expand.The seasonal swelling is the opposite of the previously known winter pattern in shrews, in which the brain and surrounding cranium shrink. The findings complicate our understanding of...

Note: Slight spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science. A trick used to turn off fictional superpowers in the movie is based on actual genetic therapies for rare diseases.In Spider-Man:...

A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot produced by fires, diesel vehicles, and other combustion sources, in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The...

The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Community of Practice for Education (SCoPE) – part of the NASA Science Activation (SciAct) Program portfolio – enables Earth and Space Science and Engineering Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) – especially NASA-funded SMEs –...

In Washington, D.C., this July, America's 250th birthday began with an evacuation. An incoming summer storm forced crowds gathered on the National Mall for fireworks out of the park and indoors. Hours later, the show...

NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by new technology.  The latest NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts...

Rain may bring disease-carrying mosquitoes. But the lack of it could have been a factor that led to the first urban yellow fever outbreak in Brazil in decades.In 2015, an El Niño powered an abnormally strong drought in central...

As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence...