When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster than people expect.

The Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011 released radioactive materials into the air,...Read more

Many consumers – and state policymakers and even utility companies – are worried about the possibility of large numbers of data centers raising electricity demand and power prices.

Those are real concerns, but our engineering research finds that if designed, constructed and operated carefully, data centers can actually help the ...Read more

Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem in decline going back to 2011, when harmful algal blooms led to a severe decline in seagrass, the foundational component of shallow coastal ecosystems.

Seagrass meadows stabilize sediments, improve water clarity and provide critical habitat and forage for species ranging from ...Read more

When Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm, tore through Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base in 2018, it battered F-22 stealth fighter jets, destroyed hundreds of buildings and churned up 700,000 cubic yards of debris. The total cost of the damage approached $5 billion.

Now, Tyndall is being rebuilt as a super-resilient “installation of the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Every few minutes, the quiet of a muggy spring evening in the Park Glen neighborhood in far north Fort Worth was broken by the clanging of pots, pans, air horns, and other noisemakers as residents looked skyward at unwanted guests.

These residents have gathered every night for the past few weeks to scare away migratory ...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket following its Sunday launch from Cape Canaveral.

The rocket looked good on the way up, but the upper stage wasn’t able to put its payload into the correct orbit.

“The FAA is aware that Blue Origin New Glenn 3 experienced a mishap during the second-stage ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rebuff of the Trump administration's push to restart oil pipelines off California's Central Coast, a state judge has ruled that a recent executive order does not override state regulations concerning oil operations.

It remains unclear exactly what effect the ruling may have on pipeline operator Sable Offshore Corp., which ...Read more

Once again, the Space Force is turning to SpaceX to get its national security hardware into space with a GPS satellite launch planned in the overnight hours early Tuesday.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 is aiming to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a 15-minute window that opens at 2:53 a.m. Eastern time on ...Read more

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prologue, many of those planted trees won’t survive. And if they do, they could end up as biological deserts that lack the richness and resilience of healthy forests....Read more

With 104 matches in 16 stadiums across Canada, the United States and Mexico, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be soccer’s biggest event ever.

It’s our job as turfgrass researchers hired by FIFA, the game’s governing body, to make sure those pitches feel the same for players and that the grass thrives.

That’s not so simple....Read more

The market for oil is global, which is why events like the war in Iran affect oil prices – and prices of the wide range of products made from oil – literally everywhere. Federal data shows that the price at the primary crude oil hub in the U.S. was US$66 a barrel in late February 2026 – before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran – and $...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Methane, the second-biggest contributor to climate change, is spewing into the atmosphere from the oil and gas industry, landfills and dairy farms. It’s also coming from another lesser-known source: reservoirs.

As plants break down underwater, they form methane, which then bubbles to the surface. California doesn’t monitor ...Read more

The multitude of water managers tasked with overseeing the drying Colorado River system stand at a dire crossroads.

As a yearslong stalemate in negotiations persists between the seven states that share the river, it’s become increasingly likely that the federal government will impose its own long-term plan, choosing from a range of proposals ...Read more

Three Philadelphia scientists won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for developing the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease, prize sponsors announced Saturday.

Their work created a scientific and regulatory road map for gene therapies, paving the way for more than a dozen similar approvals to follow.

The awardees — Jean ...Read more

Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit.

The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first stage returned...Read more

The Potomac River was named the most endangered river in the United States in a new report by American Rivers, which pointed to a massive sewage spill this winter and the growing footprint of data centers in Maryland and Virginia.

The report cited the Jan. 19 collapse of the Potomac Interceptor, which state and federal agencies have said ...Read more

Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit.

The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first stage returned...Read more