Fewer people under age 50 are dying from cancer in the U.S., but colorectal cancer mortality rates continue to surge ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is ending support for research using human fetal tissue. Agency chief Jay ...

A new study found that women in Finland who had a lot of kids—or none—aged faster than those with one or a few kids. But the ...

Emma Gometz is a journalist and artist based in Queens, New York. Before becoming a newsletter editor at Scientific American, ...

The U.S. health secretary told USA Today that he believed the flu jab was a “potential culprit that I cannot rule out” for ...

By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

A new estimate suggests land sources eject 600 quadrillion pieces of microplastic into the atmosphere every year ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

The former ISS commander said the crew’s evacuation of the space station left him feeling more confident about human space ...

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

Children born to mothers who were exposed to smoke in southern California showed increased rates of autism, although the ...