Blue Origin plans to launch a space flight with a crew that includes the singer behind the 2010 hit "Firework." But we can think of many other artists who deserve to be among the stars.

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NOAA relies on hundreds of contracts to keep the agency running. The new commerce secretary is reviewing many of them ...

Hospitals and nursing homes rely on the immigrant workforce to fill many key roles, research finds. Trump's crackdown on ...

The birth of tortoises native to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos increases their U.S. population from 44 to 48. A few ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Caitlin Rivers of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about long-term implications of measles outbreaks in West Texas, New Mexico and a dozen other states.

The legislation would ban fluoride in Florida's public water systems and prohibit plant-based products from being labeled as ...

The CDC unit that monitored all coal workers' health, including black lung disease, is gone. Their physicians wonder, "Now what?" ...

Health experts say driving up vaccination rates in affected areas is the most effective defense against this disease ...

A USAID grant enabled them to either study online or enroll in college in another country. Now the grant has been terminated.