Ten years ago, Tracey Holloway, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, would have said that air pollution in the United States was a huge success story. “Our air had been ...

As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?

Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

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The move will likely solidify the foundation’s outsized role in global health, particularly as the United States, the United ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

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In the spring of 2009, Samantha Noel, then a doctoral researcher at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, reached into Cow D’s rumen and plucked out a strain of Lachnospiraceae bacterium ...

When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far ...