Science & Technology

Faith Cerny, a graduate student in city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, center, listens during a course concerning the conflicts that arise in the siting process of renewable energy projects at MIT on Sept. 15 in Cambridge, Mass.

MIT trains students to resolve clean energy conflicts

November 4, 2023, 6:04am Nation & World

As the United States injects hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy through its signature climate law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, criticism is growing louder about where, how and whether new development should be allowed. Read story

University of Miami professor Andrew Baker poses in a wet lab while looking at corals in Miami at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.

Can this team create ‘perfect’ reef?

November 4, 2023, 6:04am Life

The nation’s military has been working on a new weapon: Creating a “perfect,” self-healing coral reef that can withstand disease, warming temperatures and sea rise. Read story

This image from a video animation provided by NASA depicts the Lucy spacecraft approaching an asteroid. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, Lucy encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter.

NASA’s Lucy swoops past first of 10 asteroids on journey to Jupiter

November 1, 2023, 5:37pm Nation & World

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter. Read story

Condor keeper Debbie Sears, left, holds tight on a condor while Dr. Dominique Keller, chief veterinarian, right, gives the California condor an avian influenza vaccine as Condor keeper Chandra David, center, looks on at the Los Angeles Zoo, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. Antibodies found in early results of a historic new vaccine trial are expected to give endangered California condors at least partial protection from the deadliest strain of avian influenza in U.S. history.

Giving condors shot at avoiding deadly flu

October 31, 2023, 6:02am Life

Antibodies found in early results of a historic new vaccine trial are expected to give endangered California condors at least partial protection from the deadliest strain of avian influenza in U.S. history. Read story

Effort targets lack of African ancestry representation in genetic studies

October 24, 2023, 6:02am Life

Scientists are setting out to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry to create what they believe will be the world’s largest database of genomic information from the population. Read story

Study: Birds on agricultural lands more vulnerable to heat

A house sparrow is seen with an insect in its beak May 25, 2020, in Lutherville-Timonium, Md.

October 24, 2023, 6:00am Life

As climate change intensifies extreme heat, farms are becoming less hospitable to nesting birds, a new study found. That could be another barrier to maintaining rapidly eroding biodiversity that also provides benefits to humans, including farmers who get free pest control when birds eat agricultural pests. Read story

Coffee, chocolate & climate change: Warming and habitat loss shrinking pollinator numbers, may hit crops hard

Bees and other insects gather on a sunflower May 18, 2012, at the Agro Brasilia, an agricultural exhibition on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil. A new study finds that changes in the climate and land use are combining to dramatically shrink the numbers of insects pollinating key tropical crops and plants.

October 17, 2023, 6:00am Life

Changes in the climate and land use are combining to dramatically shrink the numbers of insects pollinating key tropical crops. As those problems interwine and intensify, it likely will hit coffee lovers right in the mug, according to a new study. Read story