Two judges have ordered the Trump administration to lift a freeze on spending, including at the Environmental Protection ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing ...

During the COVID pandemic, RSV showed a slightly odd pattern: like flu, it basically disappeared in the 2020–2021 season, ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

For those who have wrestled a bulky couch around a tight corner and lamented, “Will this even fit?” mathematicians have heard your pleas. Geometry’s “moving sofa problem a ...

President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could hit the electric vehicle, solar, battery and wind industries ...

Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age. Parents need to understand the risks, ...

CLIMATEWIRE | President Donald Trump on Thursday tapped an aviation executive with decades of government experience to serve as temporary head of the Federal Aviation Administration. The move was ...

In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere ...

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Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft executives should instead take a deep breath and begin reevaluating their options. Do they ...