Each year in Texas, students spend months preparing to take the oft dreaded but highly consequential State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, exams. Their scores affect the grades ...

If you’ve ever bought a health testing kit for anything from the flu to a UTI, you’re one among many: Home health tests are a multi-billion-dollar global industry. In fact, a new one just became ...

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of chemicals on mammals. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency will ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

If it feels like everyone is getting the flu, you're not imagining it. This is shaping up to be another severe flu season. That's why it's important to take advantage of every tool we have to keep the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course ...

Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development. Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out ...

Decision follows China's expansion of nuclear stockpile Kremlin reacts cautiously to Trump's nuclear remarks Russia's recent nuclear tests include Poseidon super torpedo Pentagon expects Chinese ...

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an “equal basis” with ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had instructed the Defense Department to “immediately” start testing nuclear weapons "on an equal basis" with other nations. “Because ...

Trump ordered the Pentagon to restart nuclear testing for the first time since 1992, citing rival nations’ actions. Trump’s claim that the U.S. has the largest arsenal contradicts data showing Russia ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing ...