For more than a decade, sea stars died by the millions. Now we know what caused it.
“It was like a battleground,” Drew Harvell remembers. “It was really horrible.”She’s reflecting on a time in December 2013, on ...
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Is MAHA losing its battle to make Americans healthier?
On a Friday evening this July, the Trump administration announced it would lay off all of the health research scientists ...
Science Moms’ bipartisan mission: Educate other mothers about climate change
Members of Science Moms grab a selfie at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2024. From ...
Inside the federal government’s purge of climate data
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For 25 ...
Trump’s all-out assault on science constitutes a “mind-boggling own-goal”
Equipment used for tests on kratom in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.Dirk Shadd/ZUMA Get your news from a ...
Can we ever understand our dogs?
Dog people tend to be pretty confident they know what’s going on with their animals. When we put out a ...
How the largest digital camera ever made is revolutionizing our view of space
Last Thursday, I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural ...
The one thing the Trump administration got very right
If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), ...
Why Trump probably can’t cut Musk loose
Breaking up is hard to do — especially when one party is a billionaire with near-unassailable dominance of the nation’s ...
Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science
A scientist at the National Cancer Institute shows a patient the difference between CT scans showing cancerous tumors and a ...
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