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The critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are a step closer to extinction, scientists found, after landslides last year that were fueled by climate change.More than 50...

The seven astronauts on the International Space Station got a scare Friday morning when air leaks worsened in a Russian module.At about 9 a.m. Eastern time, NASA said the astronauts who had...

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global...

Despite some engine failures along the way, SpaceX completed a mostly successful test flight of its giant Starship rocket on Friday evening.The upper-stage spacecraft survived the re-entry into the atmosphere and performed...

U.S. health officials are monitoring 16 additional people across the country for symptoms of hantavirus whom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not previously mentioned, the agency said on Thursday.The...

A 27-year-old man was killed last week when he was attacked by a black bear at a remote uranium mining site in northern Saskatchewan, in what officials said was only the fourth...

President Trump on Monday nominated Cameron Hamilton, a former member of the Navy SEALs, as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seeking to install the organization’s first permanent leader of the...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced several initiatives intended to rein in the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants, which he has...

The European Biotechnology Congress 2026 (EuroBiotech 2026), organized under the patronage of the European Biotechnology Thematic Network Association, concluded successfully on 25 April in Varna, Bulgaria. Held from 24 to 25 April,...

The Trump administration is creating a new office that critics say could weaken the environmental oversight of oil drilling and seabed mining in territorial waters.The new agency, the Marine Minerals Administration, will...