After a year of RFK, Jr., heading the Department of Health and Human Services, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement has ...

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive ...

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In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

The Trump administration’s decision to scrap the “endangerment finding” on Thursday will have wide-reaching consequences for ...

An intrepid team of scientists has created ‘smart underwear’ to measure human flatulence in a bid to better understand our ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

The Name a Roach program has made more than $1 million for the city’s zoos in its 15 years of existence, with more than 60,000 roaches named.

Four fresh astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS). On Friday at 5:15 a.m. ET, Crew-12 launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kickstarting a ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

The Trump administration rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks ...