"That three of the oldest and best-known publications — Scientific American, Popular Science, and National Geographic — have all faced cutbacks in recent years surely points to something deeper…

US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire

Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms.

The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.

WASHINGTON — The future of children’s vaccines is on the agenda at today’s meeting of federal vaccine advisers, who are reviewing the childhood schedule.

California needs new rules to help future wildfires from destroying homes and businesses. But Zone Zero regulations, a key tenet of the state's plans, have roiled homeowners.

Texts between three firefighters and a third party reveal previously undisclosed details about the Los Angeles Fire Department's handling of a Pacific Palisades burn site.

Programs that tracked the beloved marine mammals near offshore wind sites are now like "a body without a pulse."

State leaders have long understood Northern California's wildfire crisis and are investing resources to solve it. But in Southern California, the problem is more confounding.

Scientists have identified more than fifty ways that houses can ignite. It’s possible to defend against all of them—but it’s arduous, and homeowners can’t do it alone.

Separate research found that at the current rate of global heating, more than 70,000 people will die in the US by 2050

Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?

RFK Jr.'s reshaped ACIP vaccine panel re-did a vote from yesterday on the MMRV vaccine and scrapped plans for another vote on the hepatitis B birth dose.

There’s no longer any scenario in which A.I. fades into irrelevance. We urgently need voices from outside the industry to help shape its future.

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

Rob Irion, longtime UC Santa Cruz senior lecturer and former Science Communication Program director, wrapped up 25 years of teaching this past fall, capping a career that helped create the leading …

Microbiologist Elisabeth Bik donates $200,000 to support training, travel

A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state's worst in nearly 30 years.

California's extraordinary precipitation dipole has persisted into mid-Feb with only slight attenuation Well, it has finally rained in Southern California this winter. But nearly the entire region remains woefully behind average. And the much-discussed north-south precipitation dipole has persisted all the way through mid-February, with NorCal remaining exceptionally wet (with some locations in the northeast

Who needs N.I.H. grants? A lot of red-state universities, for one.

The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...

In the same week it was revealed that the slogan would be missing from the field at the Super Bowl, the N.F.L. commissioner defended the league’s diversity efforts.

This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

Eight years after the first March for Science, there are no plans for another march at the dawn of a second Trump administration

We are facing a new threat to global health.

"It felt like all functions of our job had just been completely stripped away, like the system had been completely crippled."

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

A reporter embeds with wildland firefighters during one of the deadliest blazes in California history.

Millions of Americans provide unpaid care for their loved ones at home. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with reporter Kat McGowan and social worker Dawn Shedrick about the mental health burden of taking th...

Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?

Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.

Southern California reservoirs are near full, and hydrant problems are unrelated to the Delta and fish, they note

Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

Many Californians are confronting a series of confounding decisions—among them, whether they should fight or flee.