Abstaining from alcohol can have immediate benefits. But lasting gains require lasting change.Read More 

Two eyes in the sky are now trained on Earth, locating the worst offenders for releasing methane, wherever they may be.Read More 

Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of the genome.Read More 

To put boots on the Moon—and keep them there—will require bold thinkers ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.  That’s why NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement at Johnson Space Center in Houston is on a mission to empower the next generation of explorers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).  Through the High School Aerospace [...]

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.Read More 

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence in the Trump administration.Read More 

Fossil fuel pollution is impacting the most vulnerable among us: children. Their future—and health—are at stake.Read More 

The ritual of giving up animal products for a month leads participants to see both meat and themselves in a different way, and could have lasting effects on people’s diets.Read More 

Smoke exposure, researchers have found, raises the risk of dementia, poor mental health, fertility problems, and neurodegenerative diseases.Read More 

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit points a camera outside a window on the International Space Station’s Poisk module for a sun photography session. (Credit: NASA) Students from Hawthorne Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, will have the chance to hear NASA astronaut Don Pettit answer their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and math [...]