After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock ...

A bipartisan group in Congress is drafting a sweeping bill to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency—in some cases, ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

Hit by restructuring, the EPA is reportedly planning to end the Energy Star program, a project that has saved hundreds of ...

Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes ...

Cities across the U.S., including inland ones such as Denver and Dallas, are settling into the earth, posing increased ...

A disruption in federal funds has jeopardized HIV testing and outreach in the U.S. South, and researchers warn of a ...

Past research shows that there are two major motivations surrounding our social networks: one to meet new people and the ...

The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world, by taking our nuclear missiles off hair trigger alert, and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal ...

Lili Xia is an assistant research professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University.

In the new book Personhood, historian and law professor Mary Ziegler explores how the push to grant embryos and fetuses full ...

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...