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The health secretary's testimony reveals a careful distinction between departmental guidance and personal views on vaccination.
In Capitol Hill testimony, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated his department advises all children receive the measles vaccine, continuing his retreat from past vaccine criticism while maintaining a notable distance between official policy and personal conviction.
By Maya KrishnanIn Capitol Hill testimony, the health secretary endorsed routine childhood immunization while carefully separating departmental guidance from his own controversial history with vaccine skepticism.
By Victor StrandA legislative gambit to weaken wildlife protections collapsed as lawmakers faced public outcry on the environmental movement's signature day.
By Dr. Amira HassanTonight's slim crescent marks the final days before the new moon, with the next full moon arriving in early May.
By Thomas Engel
New research shows states that actively promoted the 988 lifeline saw sharper declines in young adult suicide rates than those with minimal outreach.
By Victor StrandCNSA engineer reveals plans to study agricultural infrastructure on the Moon's surface, though timeline and technical approach remain unspecified.
By Owen NakamuraResearchers capture the "attempt time" of nanomagnets for the first time, revealing that these tiny compass needles try to flip direction a quadrillion times per second.
By Dr. Amira Hassan
A growing social media movement encourages women to give birth without any medical assistance — no midwives, no prenatal checkups, no safety net.
By Elena VasquezAnnual celestial display promises up to 18 meteors per hour under ideal dark-sky conditions as Earth passes through comet debris trail.
By Victor StrandFresh from the Artemis II mission, the record-breaking astronaut discusses adapting to life in deep space, from managing sleep cycles beyond Earth's orbit to maintaining skin health in zero gravity.
By Dr. Amira HassanThe HETDEX project leverages Big Bend's pristine darkness to map dark energy's influence across 11 billion years of cosmic history.
One of astronomy's oldest recorded celestial events returns for its annual spring display.
A conservation project to protect Britain's rarest arachnid receives crucial funding after the species was rediscovered nearly a decade ago.
The Severn Rivers Trust's matching-funds experiment could reshape how Britain protects its waterways in an era of shrinking public budgets.
Simon Conway Morris honored for research suggesting life's development follows predictable pathways, challenging views of evolution as purely random
The agency is rationing power on humanity's most distant emissary, now operating 15 billion miles from Earth with 1970s-era technology.
Engineers make difficult trade-off to extend mission of humanity's most distant spacecraft, now in its fifth decade of operation.
One of Earth's oldest documented celestial events offers sky-watchers up to 18 meteors per hour under optimal conditions.
Scientists have finally pieced together how a beetle evolved the ability to spray boiling acid at predators — a trait once thought impossible by natural selection.
A captive breeding program using improvised equipment has brought one of Britain's rarest insects back from the brink of extinction in the Cairngorms.
A captive breeding program using improvised incubators has released 30,000 pine hoverflies into Scotland's ancient forests — and the species is finally stabilizing.
NASA reports unusual surge in fireball activity, but researchers remain divided on whether the increase is real or simply better detection.
The annual meteor shower, born from debris left by Comet Thatcher's centuries-long orbit, reaches maximum activity as Earth passes through its dusty wake.
Judge rules Trump administration's wind and solar project limitations exceeded legal authority, halting nationwide slowdown in clean energy development.
NASA researchers and independent astronomers are at odds over whether recent months have truly seen an unusual spike in bright meteors streaking across Earth's skies.
Demonstrations outside council headquarters highlight growing public concern over herbicide safety, forcing officials to reconsider weed management strategies.
Local authorities and conservation groups across England are modifying waterways and landscapes to accommodate the return of a once-extinct ecosystem engineer.
Environmental authorities accuse the capital's utility of failing to prevent and contain raw sewage discharge that threatens the drinking water source for millions.
The zoologist's provocative 1967 bestseller "The Naked Ape" forever changed how we see ourselves in the animal kingdom.
Geomagnetic activity could push the shimmering celestial display as far south as the Iowa-Missouri border.