The images of people snatched off the street by masked armed men in plain clothes smack of the repressive tactics of authoritarian banana republic regimes.

‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

A tiny wobble in potassium is rewriting Earth’s origin story. In new work published today in Nature Geosciences, an MIT-led team reports a subtle deficit of potassium-40 in some of the planet’s oldest and deepest rocks, a chemical quirk that points to preserved fragments of the 4.5-billion-year-old proto Earth. Why this matters: for decades, scientists assumed the Moon-forming giant impact melted and mixed Earth so thoroughly that any primordial signature vanished.

Stars in young galaxies must have been responsible for stripping most intergalactic gas of its electrons.