A 50-year-old safeguard against habitat destruction has been quietly erased. Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining The rule change strips the longstanding pro…

The Endangered Species Act’s “harm” rule, a 50-year cornerstone of habitat protection, has been gutted by the Trump administration.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo is escalating, and a U.S. citizen is now infected. U.S. Citizen Tests Positive for Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo — Africa’s CDC has warned this could become the lar…

Western Europe’s record-breaking June heat is now scorching the Alps’ glaciers and killing millions of farm animals. Western Europe Had Its Hottest June on Record — The snowpack vanished a month early…

Western Europe just logged its hottest June on record, and the heat is returning. Western Europe Had Its Hottest June on Record France, Britain, and Spain smashed temperature records in an unusually e…

A new category of lab-made cell can feed, grow, and divide — and scientists are debating whether it is alive.

France’s June heat wave killed millions of chickens, revealing a quiet agricultural crisis that hotter summers will repeat. The Chickens Were Doing Just Fine. Then the Heat Wave Killed Millions. Poult…

A long-running biological dogma is cracking: female mammals may generate new eggs after birth. The biological dogma that women don’t make new eggs after birth may be wrong The fixed-ovarian-reserve mo…

The biological dogma that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have may be wrong. The biological dogma that women don’t make new eggs after birth may be wrong New research challenges a corn…

Scientists have built a synthetic cell, SpudCell, that displays most of the hallmarks of life. Scientists Made a Cell With Most of the Hallmarks of Life. Here’s What to Know. The latest advance in syn…