President Donald Trump's administration has rolled back environmental protections around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation issued Friday that cites the dangers of wildfires.

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland.

Four space tourists are back on Earth after orbiting over the north and south poles.

A crackdown on foreign students is alarming college leaders, who say the Trump administration is using new tactics and vague justifications to push some students out of the country.

A White House official says the Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University.

Extreme weather is dangerous weather, and that’s particularly true for the heavy rainfall events that experts say are becoming more frequent with climate change.

A group of scientists and health groups sued the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, arguing that an “ideological purge” of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures.

NASA's Webb telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth's hit list.

Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday.

A volcano in southwestern Iceland that has erupted repeatedly for more than a year again belched lava and smoke into the air, just hours after authorities evacuated the few remaining residents of a nearby fishing village.

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South poles.

Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism.

NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again.

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air.

Dow, a major producer of chemicals and plastics, wants to use next-generation nuclear reactors for clean power and steam at a Texas manufacturing complex instead of natural gas.

Scientists who want to learn more about a tiny, newly discovered flower in West Texas are hoping it will bloom again in a couple of weeks after rain finally fell in the area.

A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced Chilean sea bass from protected waters near Antarctica.

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time.

Public funding for agricultural research in the U.S. has been declining for the last two decades, a process Trump has rapidly accelerated by freezing or pausing support for a variety of research programs financed by the USDA, EPA and other organizations.

A rocket by a private European aerospace company launched from Norway on Sunday and crashed into the sea 30 seconds later.

The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed more than 1,600 people and left countless others buried.

The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official for allowing “misinformation and lies” to guide his thinking behind the safety of vaccinations.

U.S. states are positioning themselves to compete for newer, cheaper nuclear reactors being developed as communities and tech giants compete in a race for electricity.

President Trump's head of the FCC had Disney and ABC in his sights.

A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar shook the Earth as far as Bangkok.

Researchers have performed the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells in hopes of restoring fertility in a man who survived childhood cancer.

After decades of partnership with the U.S. government, American colleges are facing new doubts about the future of their federal funding.

Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ago.

Nineteen sea turtles that rehabbed in Missouri after suffering the effects of cold water temperatures in New England are now back in the Atlantic Ocean off of Jacksonville, Florida.

New research finds that global warming has significantly reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in soil, lakes, rivers, snow and other places on land.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after learning that it used potentially flawed test kits for eight months.

Scientists have discovered an ancient wasp with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants.

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet.

What goes down your toilet and drain can end up on farm fields across the United States.

Researchers at Columbia University remain in limbo after the Ivy League institution bowed to the Trump administration’s demands for unprecedented changes in a bid to restore some $400 million in federal funds cut.

A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the environment.

A private European aerospace company has scrubbed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle.

A beloved bald eagle who gained popularity after incubating a rock is mourned after dying from head trauma sustained during violent storms in Missouri last week.

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations.

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

A NASA spacecraft will make its second close brush with the sun.

The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia has erupted, sending an ash column 26,000 feet high and prompting authorities to expand the danger zone around the volcano.

Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists.

Hawaii’s most active volcano has resumed erupting after a weeklong pause, sending fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction.

An experimental treatment appears to postpone Alzheimer's symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease at a young age.

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

A patient has died while taking a closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy.

Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.

South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological evaluation after he allegedly assaulted and sexually harassed colleagues.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji.

A new study out Monday finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef is no less carbon-intensive than industrial beef.

NASA's stuck astronauts are heading home now that a replacement crew has arrived at the International Space Station.

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission.

A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.

Reductions to federal support for research at universities and other institutions under President Donald Trump are dimming young scientists’ prospects, cutting off pathways to career-building projects and graduate programs.

The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station.

A judge finds that Virginia law does not consider frozen embryos to be property that can be divided up in a partition lawsuit.

Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia.

College students, rocket scientists and math enthusiasts around the world are celebrating Pi Day.

More than 100 million people in the U.S. are in the path of an expected massive March storm starting Friday.

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Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes due to the risk of federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.

A new report says at least 112 North American bird species have lost more than half their populations in the past 50 years.

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $5 a dozen.

A launch pad problem has forced a flight delay to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he said would spur the U.S. economy by rolling back rules that have unfairly burdened industry.

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr in the next few weeks or months has increased.

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

The Trump Administration's quest to “Make America Healthy Again” is targeting ultraprocessed foods.

A National Institutes of Health study aims to find out whether ultraprocessed foods lead people to eat more.

NASA's newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before.

The Trump administration is canceling studies about ways to improve vaccine trust and access.

An erupting Hawaii volcano is shooting fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky.

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades.

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s Wolf Prize, a major Israeli award in the arts and sciences.

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too.

Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals.

Researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters are venturing out of labs, hospitals and offices across the country to stand up to what they call an attack on life-saving science by the Trump administration.

The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle has returned to Earth after circling the world for 434 days.

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red across the Western Hemisphere.

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole.

SpaceX has blown up another Starship mega rocket on a test flight.

A privately owned lunar lander has touched down near the moon's south pole.

A new study finds the number of butterflies has dropped 22% since 2000, a new study finds.

Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America.

A federal judge is preventing the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding.

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power.

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island again.