Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

The water level at Lake Powell has fallen to a record low in another sign of crisis along the Colorado River.

Here’s what we know, so far, about the lasting effects of climate change on the body’s vital systems.

A new report warns that data center buildout is encroaching on California’s most vulnerable, water-stressed communities. The problem is, no one’s saying how much water they use

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch wants you to understand gen AI’s roots in race science.

Visuals have revolutionized scientific understanding throughout history—and that’s why we must resist the temptation to delegate them to mindless algorithms.

In an appeal, lawyers for 18 California youths argued that regulators discount children's future health when weighing environmental policies.

The most effective forms of resistance come from community networks. Here’s how to find and connect to yours right now.

Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

I was idly scrolling Bluesky for some news that was not depressing when I chanced upon an article by Roger Highfield dealing with a recent advance in gene editing. It reminded me of two previous po…

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

Science and data are important, research shows, but people are incredibly receptive to personal stories about public health.

This World Series ended the only way it could, which was frenzied and late. The clocks turned back just a few hours after that; the next day was in another season, shorter and darker. The day after th...

Alt: Pikachu dancing in excitement.

The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead. C...

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.

President James B. Milliken said current federal cuts are "minor in comparison to the threat that looms." Cuts, he said, could go far beyond UCLA and hit all 10 UC campuses as well as hospitals.

Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...