Shutdown Means E.P.A. Pollution Inspectors Aren’t on the Job
The E.P.A.'s shutdown furlough of most inspection personnel has halted one of the government’s most important public health activities.
By Coral Davenport
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The E.P.A.'s shutdown furlough of most inspection personnel has halted one of the government’s most important public health activities.
By Coral Davenport
Astronomers have identified a second set of odd radio bursts from the distant universe. Aliens probably aren’t causing it, but what is?
By Dennis Overbye
An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
By Kendra Pierre-Louis
Last year a gyroscope died, now there’s a camera glitch. That’s just the telescope “aging gracefully,” the mission director said.
By Dennis Overbye
In theory, hydrogen fusion may power the future. But there are substantial scientific hurdles yet to overcome.
By C. Claiborne Ray
Scientists say George, an inch-long mollusk about 14 years old, was most likely the last of Achatinella apexfulva, a species of land snail that lived only in Hawaii.
By Julia Jacobs
Why do whales sing? Scientists still aren’t certain, and maybe the whales aren’t, either.
By Karen Weintraub
It takes a high-tech village to raise a champion animal for bull riding. The cowboys, bred the old-fashioned way, can barely keep up.
By James Gorman
Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that's out of this world.
A rare blue pigment, discovered in the fossilized plaque of a German nun, hints at a broader role for women in the production of religious texts.
By Steph Yin
New genetic analysis shows that an underground parasitic mold in Michigan is about 2,500 years old and has a low mutation rate.
By JoAnna Klein
It’s not that residents don’t like trees, a recent study found. They just don’t quite trust the city to take care of them.
By Steph Yin
Paleontologists believed dicynodonts died out as dinosaurs conquered the world, but fossils found in Poland suggest they survived millions of years more.
By Nicholas St. Fleur
Our planet’s elliptical orbit doesn’t affect winter or summer temperatures. But some astronomers wonder whether it’s a factor in why life survives.
By Shannon Hall
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