SCIENCE

More Americans believe they've personally felt the impact of climate change because of recent extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States.

More research is showing that we carry genes from other kinds of ancient humans, and their DNA affects our lives today.

A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples has landed in the Utah desert.

The science of human evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and it’s painting a new picture of our origins.

Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project.

Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region's heritage.

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises.

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life.

Fall gets its official start this weekend in the Northern Hemisphere.

Tourists in Rome can now enjoy a “new” ancient attraction.

Grammy- and Oscar-nominated indie musician Sufjan Stevens is relearning how to walk after the autoimmune disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome left him immobile, representatives confirmed to The Associated Press.

Planet Earth is about to receive the biggest sample yet from an asteroid.

A pair of crossed logs in Zambia may be the oldest evidence of early humans building with wood.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described American XL Bully dogs as a “danger to our communities” and announced plans to ban them following a public outcry after a series of recent attacks.

New England will feel some effects from Hurricane Lee but is usually protected from the worst of a hurricane’s wrath by the cold waters of the North Atlantic.

For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside a brain-dead man.

NASA says the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are perceived.

A new study of Earth's health says the planet is outside its “safe operating space for humanity” on six out of nine key measurements.

The Russian space launch facility where President Vladimir Putin has hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reflects an ambitious attempt by Moscow to burnish its scientific glory that faded after the Soviet collapse.

The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for portions of Maine and a tropical storm watch for a large area of coastal New England as Hurricane Lee heads to the region.

Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight.

An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch radio astronomer have been named the winners of this year’s Balzan Prize.

As the U.S. races to build offshore wind power projects that will transform coastlines from Maine to South Carolina, much remains unknown about how the facilities could affect the environment.

The British scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep in 1996 has died at age 79.

An earthquake has sown destruction and devastation in Morocco.

The earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday has killed more than 2,100 people and the toll is expected to increase as rescuers reach hard-hit remote mountain areas.

Experts say that Hurricane Lee is rewriting old rules of meteorology.

The world is far off track on its 2015 pledge to curb global warming.

The Federal Aviation Administration says SpaceX must take a series of steps before it can launch its mega rocket again.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the Group of 20 top economic powers to use their weekend summit to send a strong message on climate change.

Students and teachers are sweltering in public schools across Puerto Rico and demanding that the government install air conditioners as the U.S. Caribbean territory bakes under record heat this year.

Fishermen and residents of Fukushima and five other prefectures along Japan’s northeastern coast have filed a lawsuit demanding a halt to the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

A Norwegian man using a metal detector has found nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls someone might have worn as showy jewelry 1,500 years ago.

Britain is rejoining the European Union’s $100-billion science-sharing program.

The Biden administration has canceled the remaining seven oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, overturning sales held in the Trump administration’s waning days and angering Republicans.

A newly discovered comet is swinging through our cosmic neighborhood for the first time in more than 400 years.

Crab fishermen in Alaska have been scrambling to stay afloat after two years of the Bering Sea fishery being closed or severely curtailed due to plummeting crab numbers.

Israeli archaeologists have discovered four Roman-era swords with their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave near the Dead Sea.

A study conducted over 18 years in Costa Rica shows that small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest can provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a six-month stay at the International Space Station.

India’s space mission says the moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole.

India has launched its first space mission to study the sun, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south pole region of the moon.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority in a campaign against the use of a drug that is not approved to treat COVID-19.

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has found the likely crash site of Russia's lost lunar lander.

A species of tiny fish that once flourished in the U.S. South's Pearl River is being reintroduced there after disappearing 50 years ago.

Chinese state media report at least 121 passenger trains are suspending service in anticipation of the arrival of Typhoon Saola, while several cities in coastal areas of southern China have suspended the start of the school year.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has visited a city in Fukushima, where he ate a seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce to show they are safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

A nearly 200-year-old time capsule that appeared to yield little more than dust when it was opened at West Point actually contained centuries-old coins potentially worth thousands of dollars.

Logging is threatening Omo Forest Reserve in southern Nigeria, which is home to endangered wildlife like African elephants.

Typhoon Saola has strengthened overnight as it continues its path across the Pacific and heads for China’s southern coast.

Feeding on some of the hottest water on the planet, forecasters expect Hurricane Idalia to rapidly strengthen as it bears down on Florida.

A rare blue supermoon could be playing a role in worsening the impact of Hurricane Idalia as the storm lashes Florida's west coast.

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital has plucked a3-inch wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has asked China to urge its citizens to halt acts of harassment, including crank calls and stone throwing at Japanese diplomatic facilities and schools, in response to Japan's release of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment and macho culture have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.

Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment and macho culture have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.

For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since the meltdown in March 2011.

Forecasters are warning of possible flash flooding and landslides across the eastern Yucatan peninsula and western Cuba, and Florida is bracing for a possible hurricane by midweek, as a weather system off the coast of Mexico is expected to become a tropical storm by Sunday.

A recent study showed that tests for sick newborns that look at their full genetic blueprints are nearly twice as good at finding genetic problems as narrower, more commonly used tests.

Four astronauts from four countries are rocketing toward the International Space Station.

India’s lunar rover is continuing its walk on the moon after the historic touch-down of India’s spacecraft near the moon’s south pole earlier this week.

Officials say at least seven tornadoes touched down in Michigan as part of severe storms powered by strong winds that killed five people, while downing trees, tearing roofs off buildings and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power.

Four astronauts will have to wait an extra day to get to space.

Economists calculate that the world's corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for what they put out.

Scientists say the loss of ice around Antarctica is hurting the survival of emperor penguin chicks.

Indian space officials say that a lunar rover has descended down a ramp from the lander of India’s spacecraft that has made its much celebrated touch-down near the moon’s south pole.

Staff at London Zoo have been getting the measure of giant gorillas, plump penguins and skinny stick insects at the annual animal weigh-in.

Gun violence prevention research has experienced a small boom in the wake of mounting shooting deaths, expanded funding and burgeoning advocacy.

A new hospital for stranded dolphins is opening on Cape Cod this month and is expected to improve survival rates and enhance research.

Public fears and frustrations are being shared in Japan's neighboring countries about the release of treated radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear power plant.

Japan’s tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant in Fukushima is releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

Temperatures are soaring in the central U.S., leading to deaths and damage.

A new study suggests that deep-sea “hot tubs” may help octopus eggs hatch faster.

India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole on Wednesday.

A planned offshore wind farm moved a step closer to construction Tuesday with the Department of the Interior announcing it has approved the project.

The head of Russia’s space agency says the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after its engines failed to shut down correctly.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised his government’s full support for fishing communities during the decades-long process to release treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

Russia reported an “abnormal situation” Saturday on its moon-bound Luna-25 spacecraft, which launched earlier this month.

A sister’s choice to donate her brother’s body for research is helping doctors learn how to one day use pig organs to save human lives.

A new study shows a promising procedure to treat severe injuries in one eye by using stem cells from the other.

Omo Forest Reserve, a tropical rainforest in southern Nigeria, faces threats from excessive logging, uncontrolled farming and poaching.

A new study finds that hurricanes the last few decades killed thousands more people than meteorologists calculate and a disproportionate number were poor, vulnerable and minorities.

New research takes another look at the DNA of the famous glacier mummy to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter.

New York surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally.

Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are adding to a body of evidence suggesting links between the natural gas industry and certain health problems.

Federal officials said Tuesday they will ease water cuts for Western states reliant on the Colorado River next year.

Wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui have killed at least 96 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.

A research vessel motoring off the coast of Alaska is exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor to surface new knowledge about life in some of the world's deepest and most remote waters.

The family of Henrietta Lacks has filed another lawsuit accusing a second company of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations.

Federal forecasters are doubling chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall.

A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.

Virgin Galactic has rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists.

The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend.

Scientists are wondering if global warming and El Nino have an accomplice in fueling this summer’s record-shattering heat.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon next year have gotten their first look at their spacecraft.

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.

Already running years behind, Boeing's first astronaut flight is now off until at least next March.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft is back in contact again, after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.

New research shows winter waves off California’s Pacific coast are swelling in size as the planet warms.