Politics

Relaxing radiation safety standards could place women and children at higher risks of health issues

The National Institutes of Health’s move to end support for research using fetal human tissue is “clearly a political decision, not a scientific one,” one expert says

In the latest effort to undermine climate action, President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which underpins global efforts to address rising temperatures

Trump has cited Venezuela’s oil resources as motivation for capturing the nation’s leader—here’s the geology behind the news

Lawmakers aim to support science research despite cuts proposed by the Trump administration

Health officials have agreed to assess pending medical research grants after a Trump administration antidiversity purge put them on ice

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced it would “pause” leases for five large offshore wind farms, imperiling the fast-growing clean energy industry

Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in future elections

Jared Isaacman—the presumptive next leader of NASA—answered questions about his plans for the future of U.S. space exploration on Wednesday

“It is certainly not standard medical practice to perform screening MRIs of the heart and abdomen,” says one expert

The FDA is reportedly mulling changes that could make childhood vaccines less accessible and more expensive

A new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by uniting artificial intelligence with large federal datasets