Science

For the first time in decades, scientists are not going to stock Lake Champlain with hatchery lake trout. That's because wild fish are finally spawning and sustaining their populations again.

The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One professor called it "the academic equivalent of nuclear war.”

A New Hampshire ecologist has discovered male satiny willows growing along the Connecticut River in the North Country. The sighting is a clue in a yet unsolved mystery.

More than 2,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported each year in Connecticut. Tick-borne diseases have become more prevalent in recent years because the bugs prefer warmer weather, and temperatures are rising.

Scientist opposed Russian invasion of Ukraine and fears deportation.

23andMe this week entered the federal bankruptcy process and is looking for a buyer, which has raised questions about data privacy for those who participated in the company's genetic analysis.

The Trump administration’s massive job and funding cuts to science are driving job seekers to look abroad.

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient tropical grounds like Hawaii and the Caribbean, according to a new study.

The rally was part of a national movement that's grown in response to the Trump administration's policies, which organizers say are a threat to scientific progress.

Butterflies are declining rapidly across the contiguous United States, including in Massachusetts. Research published in the journal Science found reductions in both species diversity and overall numbers.