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

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...