President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus.

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

A student and a staff member were hospitalized after a science experiment malfunctioned and caused a dangerous gas leak at a Connecticut high school, authorities said.

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers to a higher body mass index (BMI) among individuals, underlining that ancient ...

For a wide variety of emerging quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communications and quantum computing, quantum entanglement is a prerequisite. Scientists have now demonstrated a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

Look up to the night sky Friday night for November’s full moon, 2024’s last supermoon, followed by the Leonid meteor shower ...

Areas downwind of pollutant-generating factories were found to have more snowfall, with aerosols suspected of triggering ice ...

Capturing carbon dioxide from the hot industrial exhaust of cement and steel plants requires cooling the exhaust from around ...

Understanding complex climate science can be tricky enough, even in your own language. So what happens when none of the ...

Despite a slight uptick in trust, scientists continue to face challenges in regaining public trust after the pandemic.

But it marks a new shift “away from the declines in trust in science that we saw during the pandemic ... The findings add to ...