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A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation's education policy. But at a recent meeting, partisan differences were on full display.

Here, five takeaways from a week when the Trump administration has had to deal with the Signal chat leak, announced new tariffs and made more deportations.

NASA has announced it is moving forward with several plans to return rock samples from Mars.

A tour of a grow facility in Maryland reveals the wide variety of scents from different cannabis strains.

President Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter -- despite repeated pledges that he would not pardon him. Hunter Biden was convicted of gun crimes and pleaded guilty to tax crimes.

Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara and Italian skier Miro Tabanelli pulled off the six-and-a-half-rotation maneuver in competition for the first time in history.

Tariffs are driving prices up on lots of things Americans buy. Martha Gimbel of Yale's Budget Lab takes an imaginary walk through a big box store to examine how much more consumers will have to pay.

University leaders are under pressure to comply with federal executive orders and policy changes or risk losing federal funding. Some college presidents say that makes their jobs more challenging.

The tech titan and President Trump say they will avoid any conflicts of interest, but it's difficult for the public to verify that.

As San Francisco’s mayoral race enters its final stretch, two rivals vying to unseat London Breed, have formed an unlikely alliance. Former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, a moderate, and progressive Supervisor Ahsha Safai, have urged their supporters to list each other as the second choice on the city’s ranked choice ballots. Will this unlikely arrangement strengthen the bid of either, or weaken both? Recently, I spoke to Mission Local Managing Editor/Columnist Joe Eskenazi about the Farrell-Safai tandem.

President Trump has signed an executive action ordering federal agencies to bring their workers back to the office full time. Roughly 1.1 million federal employees are telework-eligible.