Technology
The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks...
Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals.
Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice
Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple...
Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?
Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.
Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor...
The agency maintains the global backbone of measurements of CO2 and other gases, but these are at risk of being curtailed if the foreshadowed...
Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement...
Casey Means isn’t currently licensed as a doctor. But that’s not why anti-vaxxers and conspiracists think she’s unsuited to be surgeon...
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections...
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including...
As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative...
The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and...
This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic...
Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground in its...
The Future of Manufacturing Might Be in Space
Products made in space—and used on Earth—could be a reality in the coming years.
FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas
As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to...
