Science

by Issam AHMED

Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars?

by Issam Ahmed with Daniel Lawler in Paris

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday -- making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.

The Trump administration's insistence that it's avoiding cutting certain healthcare workers — including those involved with disease response and Medicare — appears to be false, according to a report.

An anonymous official in the administration told Politico last week they were trying to be "thoughtful about critical functions that the government needs to perform."

Texas is experiencing a measles outbreak, which prompted physician Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to tweet about it on X and tell Americans that the measles vaccine has been "safe and effective since 1963." He was then criticized for supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as the secretary of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy has long been a so-called "vaccine skeptic" and has spoken out specifically on the measles vaccine, questioning its efficacy and safety.

by Suy SE

Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria -- even in the Khmer Rouge labour camp where his wife and baby died -- and stands tantalizingly close to fulfilling his life's work.

President Donald Trump complained about a "new theory" on magnets in a rant against waste, fraud, and abuse.

During Wednesday's remarks at the White House, Trump was asked how he could be sure Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency was properly cutting spending.

Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in March than expected, NASA said Tuesday.

Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS), but have been there for more than eight months after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft suffered propulsion problems.

by Paulina ABRAMOVICH

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy warned of "lazy" potheads during a segment on smoking marijuana.

During a Sunday Fox & Friends discussion about a Canadian study that linked marijuana use to schizophrenia, Duffy and Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier decried the "dangers of smoking."

The national physicians' group Doctors for America has launched an effort to stop Donald Trump's administration.

On Tuesday, the branches under the Department of Health and Human Services removed thousands of pages of health data and information from federal websites, Axios reported.

Two U.S. biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants.

United Therapeutics along with another company, eGenesis, have been working since 2021 on experiments implanting pig kidneys into humans: initially brain-dead patients and more recently living recipients.

President Donald Trump's administration reportedly threatened to halt grants for scientific studies that mention words like "female," "women," "systemic" or "trauma."

Darby Saxbe, a professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, shared a leaked list of words that could cause scientific studies to be flagged by the National Science Foundation.