Women’s brains are superior to men’s in at least in one respect — they age more slowly. And now, a group of researchers reports that they...
To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell it, making America healthy again means making American food healthy again. The nation’s top health official says hundreds of...
They say everything old is new again. Here are a few outdated bacteria and viruses looking to trend again as vaccination rates fall. Measles is in...
A company in Washington State voluntarily recalled a raw food product for cats this week because of the potential risk that it may have been contaminated...
Two weeks after their bank accounts were frozen amid a swirl of investigations by the Trump administration, nonprofit organizations that were supposed to receive $20 billion...
For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace of our species. But recently some researchers have put forward a different history: Homo...
When the fuming and rumbling at Mount Spurr, a giant volcano northwest of Anchorage, started picking up in October, Alaska’s volcano monitoring agency raised its alert...
President Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log. On Saturday, Mr. Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass...
A year ago, France embarked on an ambitious goal: To craft the world’s widest ranging ban on the use of harmful “forever chemicals” in everyday products....
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least 1,500 more. Volcanic...
