Researchers typically ask why people get cancer. What if they studied why some survive — or never develop the disease?

Companies have scant financial incentive to develop new antibiotics. Will the NIH continue to support relevant research?

As the weather agency struggles to maintain forecasting, startups are launching more tech to gather critical data.

In 2009, the agency concluded climate change endangers humans and the environment. Now, Lee Zeldin plans to reverse course.

As more people become aware of high exposures to PFAS, blood tests and clear medical advice can be difficult to find.

The agency's new drug czar wants to reanalyze risk-benefit data on ingestible fluoride, which is recommended for many ...

For Tannenbaum and other experts who seek to use nudge theory to improve health outcomes, the important question is not whether nudges are ideologically good or bad — it’s simply whether they work, ...

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What, if anything, is a fossil? It seems like a simple question with a simple answer: A fossil is a natural object, made of the preserved fragments and traces of past organisms. Fossils form the basis ...

Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in ...

American ginseng is imperiled by overharvesting. Locals are racing to preserve the plant — and its economic potential.

After 19 years of work, Juan Gilbert says he has invented the most secure voting machine. Will anyone prove him wrong?