Zinc is known primarily as something you take for a cold. But there's much more to it. Let's have Steve and Irving 2.0 - now ...

Headlines warn of “toxic dust.” But are these ominous claims grounded in current science — or just blowing dust in our eyes?

Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo ...

A resurgence of heroin in the black market might be contributing to a significant drop in fentanyl-related overdose deaths, ...

This week’s reading list spans the dugout to the data table: from a poignant moment in 1948 baseball to why natural gas bans ...

Nothing says spring as much as cherry blossoms or opening day in Major League Baseball. For many fans, attending a game in person to see that ceremonial pitch is often followed by the ceremonial ...

The debate over impoundment — the President’s refusal to spend money appropriated by Congress — has become prominent in our ...

Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory ...

Is everyone’s favorite physician, Dr. Google, about to be replaced by a smarter algorithm? In a new study of virtual urgent ...

Seals, dolphins, and seabirds are becoming ill and dying in disturbing numbers on West Coast beaches. The culprit is an algae ...

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has controversially promoted vitamin A as a treatment for measles, ...