Trump's CDC Firings Will Gut Public Health at the State and Local Level
The Trump administration’s sudden dismissals have stripped training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments
Wildfire Prevention Projects at Risk as Federal Grants Vanish
Efforts to limit wildfires in a conservative swath of northern Colorado are the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s on-and-off federal spending freeze
Why This Year’s Flu Season Is the Worst in More Than a Decade
Outpatient flu visits and hospitalizations are higher than at any time in the past 15 years
This Professor Is Training the Public to Echolocate
Neuroscientist Lore Thaler speaks about her efforts to make echolocation training more accessible
Eye Problems Cloud NASA’s Vision of Mars
A mysterious neuro-ocular syndrome remains an unknown risk for long-term spaceflight
Killing a Nuclear Watchdog’s Independence Threatens Disaster
A Trump administration plan would end the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where similar oversight muzzling has led to nuclear disasters overseas
Trump Pushes His Fossil Fuel-Focused Energy Agenda in State of the Union Speech
In his State of the Union Speech, President Trump pushed fossil fuel extraction, a plan for developing critical minerals and an Alaska natural gas pipeline
Life May Have Emerged a Cosmic Eyeblink after the Big Bang
New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang
The Latest on Egg Prices and a Bird Flu Vaccine in Jeopardy
The CDC has sequenced bird flu viruses from people in Nevada and Wyoming, and the Trump Administration has released a strategy for reducing egg prices
How Ants May Save You from Future Traffic Jams
Ants’ tactics to avoid traffic jams could be applied to future self-driving cars
Quantum Confusion Keeps Coming with Qubits
Schrödinger’s cat is scratching its head over the “topological” qubit that is causing a buzz in quantum computing. We should be, too
On COVID’s Fifth Anniversary, Scientists Reflect on Mistakes and Successes
Public health experts discuss lessons learned from the U.S. response to the COVID pandemic, on topics ranging from school closures to trust in science