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The March 13–14 lunar eclipse will be an all-night affair you won’t want to miss

Novelist John Green talks about his new nonfiction book, Everything is Tuberculosis, and the inequities in treatment for the highly infectious disease.

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacecraft

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days

The Trump administration’s sudden dismissals have stripped training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments

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

Outpatient flu visits and hospitalizations are higher than at any time in the past 15 years

Neuroscientist Lore Thaler speaks about her efforts to make echolocation training more accessible

A mysterious neuro-ocular syndrome remains an unknown risk for long-term spaceflight

A Trump administration plan would end the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where similar oversight muzzling has led to nuclear disasters overseas

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

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang

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

Ants’ tactics to avoid traffic jams could be applied to future self-driving cars

Schrödinger’s cat is scratching its head over the “topological” qubit that is causing a buzz in quantum computing. We should be, too

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

Many people are concerned about microplastics reaching our brain—but few realize how this connects with petroleum production and the climate crisis

Court documents indicate the administration has begun a campaign to block states from receiving funds for projects that would reduce climate-related damage

On its quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse

AI’s integration into everything—untangling traffic snarls, dictating drug prescriptions, rewriting the rules of scientific discovery—is accelerating quickly