Senate Democrats want to revive a NOAA database that tracked billion-dollar natural disasters

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid ...

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in the biomedical research community: A database about the tiny fruit fly

This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part ...

Spikes, a tail weapon and a shield: Was this the world's weirdest dinosaur?

The Spicomellus is “totally unlike anything else that we have ever seen,” said a co-lead of a study on the dinosaur, which ...

What the science says about acetaminophen, pregnant mothers and autism

The Wall Street Journal reported that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to link Tylenol use in pregnant women to autism. The medication has been recommended as a safe option for decades.

Over 85 scientists say Energy Dept. climate report lacks merit

Over 85 top climate scientists on Tuesday said that the Trump Energy Department’s recent climate assessment used to justify ...

AI weather forecasting institute could shutter after funding cuts

The Trump administration has proposed a 55% budget cut for the National Science Foundation, but Congress has yet to pass a ...

The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.

UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.

NASA says rock sample from Mars has potential 'biosignature' of life

The potential “biosignature” isn’t direct evidence of life itself, but rather a leftover sign that textural features on the ...

Scientists could soon lose a key tool for studying Antarctica's melting ice sheets as climate risks grow

Scientists say the planned decommissioning of a valuable research vessel is part of a series of actions by the Trump ...

CDC advisory panel recommends restricting access to the MMRV vaccine

The panel said the vaccine, which includes protection against chickenpox, shouldn’t be given to children under age 4 because of a small risk for febrile seizures in younger kids.