A national survey of 2,600 nurses and nursing students reveals a profession under severe strain, with widespread stress, burnout, and staffing shortages threatening both nurse well-being and patient ...

Comet C/2025 R3 is already drawing attention—and offers a rare chance to understand what separates an ordinary comet from a truly “great” one.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide. Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only ...

What ought, in normal circumstances, to have been a relatively cool year turned out to be one of the hottest on record. This week the main climate- and weather-monitoring groups in Europe and America ...

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The spectacular cycle of the cicada saw Brood XIV in focus in 2025. Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore shared their odyssey of a lengthy trek aboard the International Space Station. The ...

For an agency shooting for the moon and onward to Mars, NASA in 2025 has been on a roller coaster ride of proposed budget cuts, personnel layoffs, and potential elimination of science missions. A key ...

Emergency department boarding, the practice of holding admitted patients in the ED while they wait for an inpatient bed, remained a stubborn operational and clinical challenge for U.S. hospitals in ...

There’s only a few days left in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, but we’re still finding plenty to celebrate here at Physics World HQ thanks to a long list of groundbreaking ...

Gary Marshall is the SEO editor at STAT. Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was the subject of a revelatory profile here. His agenda was so sweeping, we created a tracker to document the ...