Science

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are a public health scourge. Understanding how they home in on us could help develop traps and give people new tools to prevent being bitten.

A study published Thursday found that the changing nature of storms like hurricanes could play a larger part than scientists had expected in worsening floods. 

Last weekend’s nor’easter canceled flights, forced power outages and tangled traffic throughout the Northeast. It was the hammering storm researchers had been waiting for.

NBC News’ foreign correspondent Molly Hunter meets the co-founders of Pfizer-BioNTech in a rare sit-down interview at their headquarters in Germany giving an exclusive look into the creation of the first FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccine. 

The newly identified, more infectious strain of HIV likely began circulating in the Netherlands in the 1990s and responds well to treatment, according to researchers.

The shrinking of the lake poses serious economic and health risks. A dry lakebed could send arsenic-laced dust into the air that millions breathe.

Understanding what protections our immune systems have built up so far is key to knowing how the world could emerge from the pandemic.

NASA will aim for a remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean nicknamed the "Spacecraft Cemetery" because it's a frequent target to safely de-orbit defunct spacecraft.

The April 2020 flash across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi overtook the previous max set in Brazil in 2018, meteorology group says.

Researchers say temperature by itself isn’t the best way to measure climate change’s weird weather and downplays impacts in the tropics.

Elmer and Lima, male residents of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, had been incubating an egg laid by one of the zoo’s female penguins.