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Environment

Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one...

Staff Writer - April 4, 2023

Karen A. Spiller, University of New Hampshire and Prakash Kashwan, Brandeis University More than half of all people on...

EXPLORING NATURE

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...

Staff Writer - May 15, 2025

Paul Bierman, University of Vermont Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...

Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images

How your genes interact with your environment changes your disease risk...

May 14, 2025

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

Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends...

May 13, 2025

Brain organoids, pictured here, raise both many medical possibilities and ethical questions. NIAID/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety...

May 10, 2025

Young Montanans, including Rikki Held, center, sued their state government and won a key ruling forcing the state government to consider greenhouse gas emissions when reviewing proposed development projects. William Campbell/Getty Images

Despite Supreme Court setback, children’s lawsuits against climate change continue

May 4, 2025