Trump Promises Clean Water. Will He Clean Up PFAS?
Public health advocates worry that Donald Trump could unravel federal clean water efforts, including restrictions on lead pipes and chemicals…
What Trump’s Re-Election Could Mean for Animals
A second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields…
Iran Suggests Pausing High Levels of Uranium Enrichment to Avoid Censure, Monitor Says
Iran has raised the possibility it would stop expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity of 60 percent…
Physicist Who Made Superconductor Claims Exits University of Rochester
Journals had retracted papers on superconductors that worked at room temperature and materials science that involved Ranga Dias.Ranga Dias, a…
Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show
An analysis of newly released 19th-century census records offers more insight into the conflict’s costs.Faded ink. Inconsistencies. Fires. The deadliest…
SpaceX Prepares for Sixth Starship Test Launch: What to Know
The company will try to catch the giant booster of its moon and Mars rocket for a second time on…
Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red
Dionisia Moreno, a 70-year-old Indigenous farmer, still remembers when Shallap River, nearly 13,000 feet up in the Cordillera Blanca, brought…
Trump Plans to Attend Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launch on Tuesday
President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to attend a SpaceX launch in Texas on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with…
SpaceX Starship’s Sonic Boom Creates Risk of Structural Damage, Test Finds
An independent researcher found that noise recorded miles away from the site of a recent test flight was equal to…
A Mummified Saber-Toothed Kitten Emerges in Siberia
The Homotherium cub was preserved in Siberian permafrost with its dark fur and flesh intact.In 2020, prospectors seeking mammoth tusks…