Under Trump, the U.S. will no longer recommended Covid shots for healthy pregnant women. Does the evidence support that ...

Research funding cuts may lead to shrinking Ph.D. classes, raising concerns about impacts on the science-driven economy.

As the summer field season ramps up, agency researchers are grappling with uncertainty in funding, labor, and logistics.

The original report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

Larry Saltzman has blood cancer. He’s also a retired doctor, so he knows getting Covid-19 could be dangerous for him — his ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

Recent years have seen a 12 percent decline in new HIV infections. Cuts to federal funding could upend that progress. At least 230 HIV-specific National Institutes of Health grants have been canceled.

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This reorganization threatens the existence of a tiny but crucial program housed within ...

In 2012, clinicians at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia treated Emily Whitehead, a 6-year-old with leukemia, with altered immune cells from her own body. At the time, the treatment was ...

In “The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue,” Mike Tidwell explores the ripple effects of climate change on his suburban block.

Elon Musk once joked: “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” Musk is, in fact, deadly serious about colonizing the Red Planet. Part of his motivation is the idea of having a “back up” ...

Every day, Jerry Grabarek looks out for a plume of smoke a couple miles from his dairy farm. Grabarek, a 73-year-old from Preston, Connecticut, can’t always see the plume. Some days are too rainy. Or ...