I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a ...

In 2011, a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp burned for 111 days. Even a foot of rain from Hurricane Irene failed to extinguish ...

A new USC-led study finds Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias will cost the United States an estimated $818 billion ...

A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where ...

I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a New York City hospital as he prayed in a language I did ...

Tim Spector spent 15 years studying nutrition without bias, and what he found upended his own kitchen. He pulled margarine ...

A routine check-up at the dentist ends with bad news: tooth decay has left a large cavity, and the tooth needs a crown. The ...

West Virginia University researchers are developing new laser-based techniques to observe plasma behavior in unprecedented ...

Contact lenses are a great vision correction option for many, but if one of them gets damaged, there is little to do other ...

The question of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings – and why they originally evolved in the ...

An international team of researchers have discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of north Queensland ...

The biggest jump in body size among our ancestors happened around 2–2.5 million years ago, with the appearance of Homo ...