Which college major students choose often has significant implications for job prospects and future career potential.

As Texans seek answers about the Hill Country floods, some top meteorologists and policymakers are calling for the creation of a disaster review board modeled after the National Transportation Safety ...

In 2009, a Colorado family falsely claimed their young son floated away in a homemade balloon. The boy later deflated the ...

A new federal estimate shows a rise in prediabetes among American adolescents, a finding that is spurring concerns about the ...

Still, claims of weather-control technology, once confined to relatively fringe circles, have gained some traction in the ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas ...

Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a rare dinosaur bone when drilling beneath its own parking lot.

An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.

Massachusetts jumps by the most spots in CNBC’s annual ranking of America’s Top States for Business, with lack of reliance on ...

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation ...