On 23 August, China abruptly postponed the launch of its Chang’e-7 mission to study lunar water ice, a resource that could ...

Appointment of John Gaitanis increases concern that scientific qualifications are no longer driving leadership picks ...

Today, more than 150 million people regularly smoke cannabis, making it one of the world's most popular recreational drugs. But when and where humans began to appreciate the psychoactive properties of ...

RNA therapies hold tremendous promise for treating genetic eye diseases. However, their development is limited by the lack of ...

Astronomers have discovered a star orbiting so close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way that the ...

The intense deluges, never before documented, represent the highest number of back-to-back extreme weather events in the past ...

Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) is a growing public health concern in the western U.S., with California reporting more than an eightfold rise in cases over the past two decades. As climate change, ...

Here, we demonstrate that increased endogenous androgen production in male mice can mitigate pulmonary type 2 inflammation ...

Claustrophilic behavior may help Naegleria fowleri find food—and accidentally travel up the human nasal cavity ...

I went on to work with him for two amazing years. Eventually, I was even able to help train other students. That set me on a ...

David Morens, a former top adviser at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has pleaded ...

Compact, lightweight, and energy-efficient cold-atom systems are foundational for the development of deployable quantum ...