White House Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both ...

The universe seems stable, but an unlikely shift in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space, could ...

Peter Cummings is a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who explores what happens in the brain at the threshold between life and death. His research focuses on how the human mind and brain adapt ...

Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

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Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life ...

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been at the forefront of Earth and planetary science from its location in ...

British climbers recently reached the top of Mount Everest in record time. They inhaled xenon gas before the trip. But was ...

Oil industry opposition to a planned OSHA rule to limit heat deaths comes as oil and gas workers face increasingly dangerous ...