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White House reviewing cases of missing, dead scientists for possible links as 11th person identified

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that the Trump administration is working with federal agencies and the FBI to review a growing number of cases involving American scientists who have gone missing or died and to determine whether any of the cases may be connected. … Read more

Great white sharks started disappearing from a former hotspot years ago, but scientists can’t agree why

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The coastal waters around Cape Town, South Africa, have long teemed with great white sharks. But about 10 years ago carcasses of these feared predators began washing up on beaches with their livers missing. Now it’s hard to find any great whites. Tonight, a story that has all the hallmarks of a whodunnit: one that’s … Read more

South Africa’s great white sharks mysteriously vanished. Scientists can’t agree who, or what, is the culprit.

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When great white sharks started vanishing from the coastal waters around Cape Town, South Africa, some scientists and conservationists were mystified. Those waters teemed with great white sharks when 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper went diving with the predators in 2010. The area was home to smaller sharks and seals that the great whites hunted, … Read more

Climate change is outpacing evolution. Scientists are using DNA to catch up

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SAN DIEGO — Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, from California’s towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows along its coast, both of which store vast amounts of carbon and support complex webs of life. Marine heat waves, record wildfires and … Read more

“Weird blob” creature thought to be the world’s oldest octopus isn’t an octopus after all. Here’s what scientists found.

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A prehistoric fossil previously thought to belong to the world’s oldest octopus has been reclassified as something else, after scientists discovered the remains actually belonged to a different type of sea creature. “It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Thomas Clements, the lead researcher behind the new … Read more

Harvard scientist’s visa was unlawfully canceled, judge finds

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A federal judge in Vermont ruled that Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova’s visa was unlawfully canceled after she was detained at an airport over biological samples she was carrying, handing her a key legal victory in a case that has raised questions about the limits of government power at the border. Subscribe to read this story … Read more

As Western heat wave ends, scientists try to make sense of its length and intensity

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The scorching spring heat dome that baked the West for well over a week has finally moved along, after setting more than 1,500 temperature records across 11 states, according to the research group Climate Central. In its wake, climate scientists, irrigation managers and local officials are taking stock of a looming water crisis and trying … Read more

Can you trust calorie counts on food labels? What the nutrition scientists say

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The math it took to calculate the number of calories in your favorite snack involved a lot more guesstimation than you may think. The Food and Drug Administration began requiring standardized nutrition labeling — including the number of calories per serving — on most packaged foods in 1990. Obesity rates skyrocketed in the United States … Read more