A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

Come learn about the history of the Puerto Rican liberation movement as we read Obstinate Star: A History of the Puerto Rico Independence Movement.

Marcus passed away on July 16. He was 102.

“El presidente del Centro Unido de Detallistas de Puerto Rico (CUD), Ramón Barquín III, publicó en semanas recientes una columna de opinión en la que argumentaba en contra de aumentos adicionales ...

Semillas de Triunfo y For Girls in Science Puerto Rico

PIP busca hacer justicia presupuestaria para la UPR

La Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) acaba de anunciar que el doctor Jorge Colón, investigador y profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales del Recinto de Río Piedras de la Univer...

Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

La Dra. Gretchen Díaz Muñoz conversa sobre "Semillas de Triunfo", un programa con 10 años de trayectoria que empodera a niñas y jóvenes para que d ...

Environmental engineer Evens Emmanuel is trying to rebuild a shattered academic system

Researchers are piecing together the unusual chemical reactions that enable dinoflagellates to create spectacular light displays in tropical bays. But the mechanism behind their bioluminescence remain...

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

Empoderando a Puerto Rico con Comunicación Científica

Empoderando a Puerto Rico con Comunicación Científica

¿Por qué socialismo? Un escrito de Albert Einstein con nota y traducción de Jorge Colón.

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

Katrina showed me that climate change doesn’t just create disasters; it magnifies the injustices we’ve already allowed to exist.

Uno de los principales problemas que enfrenta la especie humana es su relación catastrófica con el ecosistema. El sistema capitalista es el factor crucial en el desastre ambiental que sufrimos globalm...

Researchers say DOE report cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases

Extensive layoffs could have wide-ranging impacts on conservation and human health

Gutting the National Climate Assessment is just one way the Trump administration is undermining the legal justification to limit greenhouse gas emissions

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted the existing CDC Vaccine Advisory panel, replacing existing experts with anti-vaxxers and conspiracists. MSNBC Public Health Analyst Dr. Irwin Redlener says “the actions that they are doing under his direction are undermining, not only essential vaccine information for Americans, but they’re pulling the legs out of the vaccine programs globally.” Pulitzer-Prize winning science journalist Laurie Garrett says this new committee is emblematic of “a government committed to destroying the truth-generating enterprise of science.” 

Solar panels on defunct surface mines could put land to productive use for renewable generation, report says

A federal judge tossed out the National Science Foundation’s policy capping reimbursements for costs indirectly related to research, finding “severe” deficiencies in the agency’s reasoning for the pla...

As China continues its scientific ascent, the rest of the world should keep engaging.

YouTube video by Bianca Graulau Español

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

Researchers have long debated the risks posed by low levels of ionizing radiation

Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level rise, meaning that only a return to +1 °C or lower will avoid extensive loss and damage to coastal populations, according to a synthesis of recent evidence.