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

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

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

The agency froze most spending above $1. Government researchers now struggle to carry out basic functions of their jobs.

With crumbling infrastructure, officials and health care workers face many of the same problems exposed by Covid.

In March and April of 2020, more than 50,000 people in the United States died from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Doctors were forced to guess at which treatments might work, while hospitals ...

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 ...

In “The Power of Nuclear,” Dutch journalist Marco Visscher takes aim at fears and misconceptions about atomic energy.

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