The country supports some of the world’s most important satellites. But experts worry about its proximity to Russia.

Now a startup called Stardust seeks something more ambitious: developing proprietary geoengineering technology that would ...

Workers in the middle of remediating a postwar site were sent home for weeks. Now, they scramble to avoid catastrophe.

In "Superbloom," Nicholas Carr laments that we live in a state of uncontrollable sensory and communication overload.

Five years ago, Melanie Richburg used a roll of duct tape, a HEPA filter, and a portable fan to draw contaminated air out of a hospital room where patients were tested for the coronavirus. Now, as the ...

At issue are government dollars allocated to cover the indirect costs of doing research. In 2023, the NIH — the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world — calculated that it awarded ...