Trump Funding Freeze Could Set Disaster Recovery Back ‘for Years’
CLIMATEWIRE | The federal government Tuesday shut down the online system it uses to distribute billions in disaster aid after President Donald Trump ordered...
What Trump’s First Days Say about Science in the New Administration
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Trump Asks SpaceX to Return NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronauts to Earth ASAP
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RFK, Jr., Confirmation Hearing Showed 5 Ways He Threatens Public Health
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Watch a Frog Walk on Water with High-Speed Belly Flops
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It Might Be Time to Add Venomous Caterpillars to Your Anxiety...
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A Renewable Energy Project Could Brighten Chile’s Dark Skies. That’s Bad...
A high-stakes face-off is brewing in the arid deserts of northern Chile, between astronomers building the world’s largest optical telescope and a proposed green...
Without Polio Vaccines, How Quickly Will the Disease Return?
Every aspect of Grace Rossow’s life since she was around nine months old has been affected by polio. The vaccine-preventable gastrointestinal disease attacks the...
How Plane Accidents, Such as the Washington, D.C., Crash, Are Investigated
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Are You Tired of Feeling Cynical? Give Hopeful Skepticism a Try
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman.No one wants to be a sucker. But do most of us go too...
