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The National Weather Service has lost hundreds of employees since President Donald Trump took office, and its severe storm forecasts may be suffering. Two tornado outbreaks this year, one in Kansas, took forecasters by surprise. Some meteorologists warn that further cuts will create a new cluster of blind spots.

Jason-Flor Sisante has always been enamored by outer space. Now, as a member of the United States Navy's aerospace medicine program, he hopes to take his talents as a medical professional into the cosmos.

Starting in Seattle, Washington, Dr. Friedrike Benning biked over 2,000 miles before her first day as a fellow at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Along the way, she discovered how her work as a researcher reflected her journey as a cyclist.

An anonymous $14 million grant to the Missouri Botanical Garden is prompting scientists there to look at their herbarium collection in new ways, taking their cues from the stars.

In "Footeprint," out today, Lindsay Metcalf resurrects the history of Eunice Newton Foote, a 19th-century scientist who discovered carbon dioxide’s heat-trapping properties while fighting for women’s place in science.

Dr. Westley Youngren, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is researching ways to treat nightmares caused by trauma or PTSD.

A data center in the Crossroads is one of the first in the country to get a loan for clean energy. Plus: Scientists across the central U.S. say they have experienced a year of change and uncertainty under the second Trump administration.

A huge tree is being cut down in Kansas City's Historic Northeast. The burr oak predates even the Revolutionary War and survived as the city sprang up around it. But after a lightning strike and years of disease, Frank the Liberty Tree has reached its end.

Scientists in the middle of the country told Harvest Public Media that 2025 was a year of major changes and uncertainty.

After the state's education department oversaw a pilot program teaching science through agriculture, lawmakers saw an opportunity for more.

The Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in National Science Foundation grants, but the campus in Rolla is still winning awards — for now.

Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky ditched her swimming cap for a lab coat to teach USD 232 students about careers in science, technology, engineering, art and math, or STEAM.