BALTIMORE – Tuberculosis infected more than 8 million people in 2024 – surpassing COVID-19 and marking a record high since 1995 – as a new Johns Hopkins-developed vaccine emerges amid rising antibiotic resistance.
Pop quiz: If you’re an astronaut trying to endure extreme conditions, where should you look for inspiration? Sandra Bullock in “Gravity”? Ryan Gosling in “Project Hail Mary”? Wrong. Try an asexual reproductive spore.
NASA’s newest space telescope is ready for its date with a Falcon Heavy rocket in September, ahead of schedule and under budget, agency officials said Tuesday.
When Alex Maile, a biologist, perused the jars of anglerfish pickled in alcohol at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, he found himself hooked by their lures.
The United States-funded HIV program that is credited with saving 26 million lives worldwide suffered big blows to its impact after the Trump administration’s abrupt stop and restart of its activities last year, according to the first tranche of data from the program since 2024.
Over the last decade, poison control centers around the country have received tens of thousands of calls from consumers of kratom products reporting adverse and life-threatening health effects, with researchers saying reports in 2025 reached a new level. Last month, researchers analyzed information from the National Poison Data System and found that between 2015 and 2025, poison control ...
PITTSBURGH — As Barbara Bowser was preparing for a liver transplant in 2018, doctors at the University of Pittsburgh asked her if she’d be willing to participate in a study. She said yes, happy to repay the good fortune of receiving a liver and help science in the process. “We were just looking at research in the future,” she said. “We never ever thought it would work.” Bowser, of ...
Meteor showers will begin to light up the night sky, kicking off the season with the Lyrids. The Lyrids meteor shower is set to begin on Tuesday, April 14, and end on Thursday, April 30, according to the American Meteor Society.
After hurtling to the moon and back, the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission were welcomed home to cheers back in Houston and spoke to the public Saturday for the first time since coming back to Earth.
If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she recently emerged from overwintering in a grape-sized hole in the ground to search for food and a site to build her colony.
A study, published in February, has found that over the past several years, traffic fatalities in the United States increased by nearly 15% on the same days as the biggest album releases from artists such as Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny.
Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and microbiologist most known for developing the germ theory of disease, once said that in the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
Tucked in the northeast corner of Spokane is a 45-member team dutifully working to ensure America’s return to the moon this month went off without a hitch.
Two iconic South Pole species, the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal, have been officially declared endangered by the world’s leading conservation authority - a consequence of dramatic changes to their habitats caused by global warming.
The Artemis II astronauts are scheduled to return Friday from their trip to the moon. When they do, they will slam into Earth's atmosphere at over 32 times the speed of sound — and will do so using a reentry technique that has yet to be tested in real-world scenarios.
