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The National Science Foundation funds America’s next great innovations, including space-related research. Heritage Space/Heritage Images/Getty Images

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Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life

Staff Writer - May 15, 2025

Cities like Houston get high humidity in addition to the heat, making summer almost unbearable without cooling. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

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Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends and electricity prices rise

The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber

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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists

Trade opportunities ahead. Kschulze/Getty Images

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If you really want to close the US trade deficit, try boosting innovation in rural manufacturing

Dragonflies, just like bees and butterflies, face threats that humans can help prevent. Christopher Halsch

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Humans are killing helpful insects in hundreds of ways − simple steps can reduce the harm

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To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand US...

Staff Writer - May 8, 2017

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Will optimistic stories get people to care about nature?

Staff Writer - May 7, 2017

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Court ruling is a first step toward controlling air pollution from...

Staff Writer - May 6, 2017

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Trump’s offshore oil drilling push: Five essential reads

Staff Writer - April 30, 2017

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National monuments: Presidents can create them, but only Congress can undo...

Staff Writer - April 29, 2017

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To have impact, the People’s Climate March needs to reach beyond...

Staff Writer - April 26, 2017

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The extraordinary return of sea otters to Glacier Bay

Staff Writer - April 26, 2017

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There’s a new generation of water pollutants in your medicine cabinet

Staff Writer - April 23, 2017

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The Women’s Health Initiative investigated the risks and benefits of menopausal hormone therapy. Kohei Hara/DigitalVision via Getty Images

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The Women’s Health Initiative has shaped women’s health for over 30...

Staff Writer - May 3, 2025

Jean Wactawski-Wende, University at Buffalo Women make up more than 50% of the population, yet before the 1990s they...

Tatooine’s moisture farming equipment stands in the desert of Tunisia, where parts of the ‘Star Wars’ movie series were filmed. Véronique Debord-Lazaro via Flickr, CC BY-SA

Some ‘Star Wars’ stories have already become reality

May 2, 2025

Fireflies in Boulder, Colo., during the summer of 2023. Radim Schreiber/Firefly Experience, CC BY

Fleeting fireflies illuminate Colorado summer nights − and researchers are watching

May 1, 2025

A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Grant Maslowski

Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal

April 29, 2025

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need extraordinary proof. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi

‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much...

April 27, 2025