When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

Backers of raw milk are pushing to make the potentially dangerous product more widely available and easier to obtain, even as ...

Perched on the bow of his long-tail fishing boat, 75-year-old Sukjai Yana untangled a handful of small fish from his net, ...

Denver Water announced drought restrictions on March 25 — the earliest in their history. Salt Lake City has urged residents to voluntarily cut back and mandates that government offices do. Cities such ...

The review was conducted as part of the Food and Drug Administration’s Operation Stork Speed project — billed as the “largest ...

Ypsilanti’s water system is turning off the tap for data centers. Ypsilanti Township, the community where a $1.2-billion ...

President Donald Trump's administration proposes cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by roughly half, ...

Perched in a tower atop a hill, Matthew Douglas climbs a staircase and emerges from a hatch on the roof, where a heavy glass ...

A cart sits in a classroom lab with multiple shelves loaded with white and amber bottles of chemicals. The labels show many different brands and time periods, and some are peeling. Legacy chemicals ...

The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure. Now it’s ...

Individuals from across Loudoun who are working to solve environmental and sustainability issues across the county were ...

Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some ...