Sci/Tech

Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX will see a vehicle reach the moon much sooner and under much different circumstances than the company imagined. 

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would permit some patients with deadly pancreatic cancer to receive early access to a promising, highly coveted drug.

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79.

About a half-mile from the Barker Road Trailhead, the brush changes.

Poop has plenty of potential.

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.

Astronauts might get a good night of sleep in space with a new test developed at Washington State University.

Debra Barksdale vividly remembers her first nursing school clinical rotation.

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.

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 ...

The world’s oldest gorilla in captivity turned 69 on Monday, celebrating with a vegetable feast and a shoutout from Guinness World Records.

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.