Although scientists have long known that flora and fauna in Central Europe still carry traces of radiation stemming from the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear...
A little over a week after successfully landing a rover on the moon, India on Saturday launched its first solar mission aimed at studying the outer...
SAN FRANCISCO — Isaias Lopez was dying, but he didn’t know it. Lopez was slumped against a wall in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, where the...
As the movie “Oppenheimer” has shown to millions, scientists disagree, have fragile egos, experience office politics and have problems in their personal lives. And they do...
After recovery comes identification. With new rapid DNA technology, investigators no longer have to send all their material to labs with sophisticated equipment, highly skilled technical...
Virgin Galactic officially joined the space tourism business. On Aug. 10, the company flew the first Olympian, Jon Goodwin, and the first mother-daughter duo, Keisha Schahaff and...
When Nicole Villagran signed up to do her first Tough Mudder course, she thought she’d be getting an entertaining, if messy, workout. She got that —...
In late 1985, weeks after the shattered remains of the R.M.S. Titanic came to light, officials in Washington began seeking legal authority to regulate access to...
Federal officials have discovered major errors in the systems and procedures that some states have been using to verify eligibility for Medicaid, possibly leading to a...
Why It Matters: A contributor to maternal deaths The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Strokes account for about 7.5...
