DOGE’s Elon Musk should turn his $2-trillion hatchet to wasteful and perilous U.S. nuclear weapons modernization plans ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing ...

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During the COVID pandemic, RSV showed a slightly odd pattern: like flu, it basically disappeared in the 2020–2021 season, ...

Two judges have ordered the Trump administration to lift a freeze on spending, including at the Environmental Protection ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft executives should instead take a deep breath and begin reevaluating their options. Do they ...

President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could hit the electric vehicle, solar, battery and wind industries ...

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Chris Rocheleau, Trump’s pick for acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been a longtime agency official and ...

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