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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is beginning the widest, deepest survey yet of the southern sky. By Katrina Miller Curiosity, Perseverance and Promise? NASA May Send a Mars Rover to the Moon. As part of ...

Do you want to contribute solutions to environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, pollution, water use and land use? Environmental scientists advance our understanding ...

July 1, 2026 • The U.S. generates 292 million tons of trash each year – and that trash has to go somewhere. Sometimes, that’s to an incinerator, where it’s burned and turned into electricity.

No leader can succeed without mastering the art of persuasion. But there’s hard science in that skill, too, and a large body of psychological research suggests there are six basic laws of winning ...

After a year of testing, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started capturing data as part of the much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time After Decades of Debate, Scientists Say These ...

Soldiers of Irish heritage accounted for up to 50 percent of the Continental Army's ranks. Driven from their homeland by British oppression, Irish-born rebels also served as spies, politicians and ...

As droughts in the United States become more frequent and longer-lasting, new assessment tools are needed. A new National Academies report examines how the field of drought assessment can better ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

How senescing cells time their transition to the cell death programme is unclear. We show that, in Arabidopsis thaliana, senescing cells are genetically wired to dissipate their cytosolic arginine ...

July 1, 2026 What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that today's leading theory of the brain—as a prediction machine ...

Think you know your planets from your plants? Are you a biology brainiac or a space superstar? Give this Top Class science quiz a go and see what score you can get! Make sure you let us know your ...