Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence got us into this climate mess—and how it will ...

Nearly 600 employees left the National Weather Service or were fired in recent months. Meteorologists say 125 expected new ...

Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—just as harm reduction was beginning to work ...

Surveys show that how nuclear strike options are presented strongly influences the decision a president may make ...

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A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it ...

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

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

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

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