No wonder the European Marine Energy Center, one of the world’s leading agencies for developing and testing wave and tidal power technologies, chose to set up shop here; the nonprofit agency hosts ...

Just how deadly is the H5N1 avian flu? The virus, which is currently sweeping through U.S. dairy herds, rarely jumps to human beings, at least for now. But when it does the consequences can be grave: ...

Over time, social media has evolved to function as something of a town square, where Americans come to chat, share information, and organize. Unlike actual town squares, however, these platforms are ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to end the basic government consensus that climate change hurts human health and the environment, launching what’s likely to become a multiyear legal ...

CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. Some U.S. politicians are advocating for reform towards a single payer system, such as Medicare for All.

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President Donald Trump’s administration is directing employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This reorganization threatens the existence of a tiny but crucial program housed within ...

One of the world’s leading climate, weather and wildfire science research institutions is being targeted for elimination in what many of those affected see as President Donald Trump’s political ...

Nuclear weapons laboratories don’t often help solve serial-killer cases. But in the investigation of Efren Saldivar, data from such a lab provided the clinching evidence that led to his conviction on ...

Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said President Donald Trump’s administration would liberate Americans from the FDA’s “aggressive suppression” of ...

The town of Seagraves sits on the high plains of West Texas, not far from the New Mexico border. Nearby, water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer irrigates fields of peanuts and cotton. Dissolved in ...