Since the Second World War, advances in science and technology have driven 85 percent of American economic growth.

Space scientists within NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s changes at the agency, which was ...

The onset of some level of climate upheaval or widespread destruction of biomes and human lives, mild or severe, has ...

A pioneering climate scientist says global heating is accelerating. Others say we can still reach climate goals ...

Those are the latest alerts in a new paper led by James Hansen, director of Columbia University’s Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program and a former director of NASA’s Goddard ...

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A small but growing movement of scientists wants to classify aging as a disease. They face an uphill battle.

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