In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.

City officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires thinking about more than buildings.

Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of the disease.

The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.

A novel private plan in the late 1980s helped set the stage for planting trees as a means to sequester carbon emissions.

The project was so secret, most members of Congress didn’t even know it existed. In 1942, when an elite team of physicists set out to produce an atomic bomb, military leaders took elaborate steps to ...

Peter Hotez has made every effort to stay up to date with Covid-19 vaccines, starting with the initial two doses and continuing through each booster iteration. “I’ve gotten every one possible,” he ...

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