In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter takes aim at the nation's drug treatment system and finds it sorely lacking.

The focal point for much of the work in the last few years is NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or HAQAST.

Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...

Ocean acidification occurs when the ocean absorbs excess carbon dioxide, causing its pH to drop. This makes it harder for ...

The accidental release of fluoxetine in a aquarium filled with clams gave bivalve husbandry an unexpected new tool.

The research hospital cares for people with rare or life-threatening diseases. This year, patient numbers plummeted.

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

Digital sequence information has radically changed the way researchers look at the world’s genetic resources.

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

Evolution is a work in progress, so it’s hardly surprising that some of the features it has built into the human body are still far from optimal. And of all those features, one of the hardest to ...

The foreskin-removal procedure raises tricky questions about medicine, consent, bodily autonomy, and sexual pleasure.

Despite the evidence supporting prescribed fires in the American West, policymakers are slow to put it into practice.