Sophie Bushwick, senior editor for Popular Science, discusses the Trump administration's recent announcement to scale back the size of two national monuments in Utah, which are home to over 400 research sites employing 2,000 scientists.
The administration will scale back the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bear's End. Scientists are suing to reverse the decision because of the disruption it will cause in paleontology and other scientific research endeavors.
We discuss Patagonia and R.E.I.'s opposition to the decision and whether a compromise can be made between the government and researchers.
The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
New research shows that people can be genetically predisposed to having sleep problems like insomnia and that these signs can show up in early childhood.
The National Zoo's three giant pandas, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji. on Wednesday began their long trip to China, leaving behind an empty panda exhibit with no certainty that pandas ever would again take up residence there.
