Science

Contrails, those white lines that form behind airplanes in certain atmospheric conditions, can have a significant climate impact. The good news? They can be avoided.

That could weaken the doctoral pipeline — and spell trouble for the future of science and innovation in the U.S.

From fraudulent research coming out of paper mills, to data fabrication showing up in published papers, academic journals have a quality control issue on their hands.

Funding for agriculture research at 17 labs at U.S. universities is now frozen. The labs are laying off workers, and some research is on hold.

Colossal is a firm focused on bioscience and the de-extinction of species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird.

Key meetings with scientists have been cancelled recently and they are uncertain about what the implications are for their research funding.

Vinald Francis has a love of both art and science. Now, he works as a medical illustrator for textbooks and doctor’s office posters.

“They’ve kind of come around,” says a school superintendent in Fargo, North Dakota.

The states with the biggest clean energy investments, backed by Inflation Reduction Act funds, are not the typical climate change leaders.

The U.S. electrical grid added more than 20 gigawatts of capacity the first half of this year, much of it from renewables.