A new report shows that a global climate crisis could displace more than 1.2 billion people by 2050, with environmental disasters fueling mass migration and major armed conflicts. According to a new study, an estimated 2 billion people will be displaced from their homes by the end of the century…

For decades, NASA’s Human Research Program has been discovering answers to what happens to the human body in space. American astronauts who have spent long periods in space have helped NASA understand the effects of long-term exposure to an environment confined to microgravity. …

Climate change is taking its toll on agricultural productivity and farmers in India. MUMBAI, India may be on the verge of melting the polar ice caps, but its economy will be hit hardest by climate change, a 2018 economic study shows. The world’s dry population is projected to rise 43%…

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made contact with Earth for the first time since September 15, 2017, when the spacecraft ended its life by plunging into the ringed planet’s atmosphere. …

The Coronavirus forecasting program estimates that the global dissemination of coronavirus will end by December 2020. Here we will use the daily mortality rate (if it drops below 0.3 million) as an indicator of the end of a pandemic for individual states. After the mask is off, the United States…

Doctors are working with statisticians and computer scientists to develop better tools for predicting disease. Experts in this field are working on methods for identifying and developing algorithms and models for machine learning that can provide accurate predictions. …

In March, doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit found that a person had sustained brain activity for seven minutes after turning off his life support machine. Even after medics declared the person clinically dead, brain waves continued to occur as if in sleep. …