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The coal-fired Hunter Power Plant in Castle Dale, Utah in 2024. A former U.S. climate envoy says President Donald Trump is leading the world "in the wrong direction" on climate and weaponizing clean energy as a culture war issue.

WORLD / Politics

Sep 18, 2025

Ex-U.S. climate envoy: Trump threatening ‘consensus science’ worldwide

John Podesta, former U.S. President Joe Biden’s senior point person on international climate policy, testified in a case challenging the administration’s fossil fuel agenda.

Simple, affordable and versatile, the humble potato is now one of the world's most important crops. But its origins have long puzzled scientists.

WORLD / Science & Health

Aug 1, 2025

Study reveals potato’s secret tomato heritage

Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern-day spud around 9 million years ago.

U.S. molecular biologist David Liu in 2017. A revolution is underway in gene editing, and at its forefront is Liu, whose pioneering work is rewriting the building blocks of life with unprecedented precision.

WORLD / Science & Health

Apr 7, 2025

The scientist rewriting DNA, and the future of medicine

American molecular biologist David Liu foresees his work to also contribute to areas such as developing more nutritious or disease-resistant crops.

The crew of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission, including NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, pose for a photo aboard the International Space Station on Feb. 26.

WORLD / Science & Health

Mar 19, 2025

What happens to the human body in deep space?

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure and vision impairment are just a few of the challenges space travelers face.

A beach house is engulfed by the flames of the Palisades fire as seen along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, on Wednesday.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Jan 9, 2025

Extreme weather and suburban sprawl fuel LA’s wildfires

A prolonged dry spell and strong winds played key roles, though experts say it’s too soon to say how much climate change contributed.

This undated handout picture courtesy of Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket during a successful integrated vehicle hotfire at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

BUSINESS / Companies

Jan 6, 2025

Bezos’ Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch

The NG-1 mission will carry a prototype of Blue Ring, a Department of Defense-funded spacecraft envisioned as a versatile satellite deployment platform.

A new — and severe — case of bird flu in the United States has raised alarms, with California declaring an emergency to ramp up its response.

WORLD / Science & Health

Dec 19, 2024

First severe bird flu case in U.S. sparks alarm

The new case brings the total number of infections in the United States during the current 2024 outbreak to 61.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 23, 2024. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is nominating Kennedy to be the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

WORLD / Politics

Nov 15, 2024

Vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. vows to ‘Make America Healthy Again’

Donald Trump announced he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the next secretary of Health and Human Services.

Cows graze in a field near the Green Bank Telescope, a 100-meter fully steerable radio telescope, at the Green Bank Observatory in the U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone in Green Bank, West Virginia, on May 20.

WORLD / Science & Health

Sep 2, 2024

Inside the ‘golden age’ of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope

If intelligent life exists out there, there’s a good chance the teams at the world’s largest fully steerable radio astronomy facility will be the first to know.

An injured man is brought into the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, following the Israeli bombardment of a residential apartment on June 8.

WORLD

Jun 27, 2024

U.S. health workers describe dire conditions at Gaza’s hospitals

A lack of supplies meant many had to make agonizing decisions on who would live and who would die.

Dr Yilai Shu examines a young patient at the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University on April 17.

WORLD / Science & Health

Jun 6, 2024

New gene therapy offers way to hear for some deaf children

The new gene therapy is focused on people born with a mutation of the OTOF gene, or roughly 2% to 8% of those with inherited deafness.

Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.

WORLD / Politics

May 14, 2024

Celebrities face digital backlash over Gaza silence

For months, activists have flooded the comments sections of social media sites, urging stars to join calls for a cease-fire in the war.

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft, atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, lifts off on its third launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, near Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.

BUSINESS / Companies

Mar 15, 2024

SpaceX rocket makes successful test flight but is lost in descent

SpaceX’s prior attempts have ended in spectacular explosions — but the company says this is an acceptable cost in its rapid trial-and-error approach.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launchpad SLC-40 at the Kennedy Space Center on NASA's PACE mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 8.

BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS

Feb 13, 2024

Apollo to Artemis: Why America is betting big on private space

While it has seen some successes, the move could put the U.S. at risk of falling behind its principal space rival, China, in achieving major milestones.

Members of the media take pictures of the ULA's new rocket Vulcan Centaur, which is set to make its maiden flight Monday with a payload that includes a private lunar lander, as well as the cremated remains of several people associated with the original "Star Trek" series, including creator Gene Rodenberry and cast member Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed the character Uhura.

BUSINESS / Tech

Jan 8, 2024

Private industry leads America’s first moon landing since Apollo

A soft landing on the moon has only been accomplished by few national space agencies

Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have identified genetic variations associated with human bisexual behavior.

WORLD / Science & Health

Jan 4, 2024

Scientists discover genetic underpinnings of bisexuality

Data has revealed the proportion of people reporting both bisexual and homosexual behavior has been rising for decades.

Climate activists protest against fossil fuels at the COP28 conference in Dubai on Tuesday.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Dec 14, 2023

‘Many will die’: Climate scientists slam COP28’s limited ambition

Last-minute compromises on wording described as ‘devastating’ and a ‘death knell’ for averting the worst impacts of long term planetary heating.

With a year left until the 2024 presidential election, Arab and Muslim American support for U.S. President Joe Biden threatens to plummet over his Middle East policy — a factor that could even swing certain states.

WORLD / Politics

Nov 3, 2023

Muslim anguish over Gaza holds electoral risks for Biden

While Muslims account for a small fraction of the U.S. population, the election could swing on votes in a few close races.

This undated handout photo provided by the Michigan Technological University shows a M93, "Old Gray Guy," the larger and lighter colored wolf in the front and center.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Sep 1, 2023

How a lone ‘immigrant’ wolf revived a forest ecosystem

By the 1980s, the wolves were in trouble due to the arrival of canine parvovirus which drove their numbers down from a high of 50 to around 12.

Flames reach upward along the edge of a wildfire near Mistissini, Quebec, in June.

ENVIRONMENT

Aug 23, 2023

As wildfires multiply, a new era of air pollution

The average American had already been exposed to 450 micrograms of smoke per cubic meter by early July, worse than from 2006-2022.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.

What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival

By Alex K.T. Martin

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