Around 13 percent of American adults regularly take an antidepressant, according to 2020 data, the most common of which are ...

Recent years have seen a 12 percent decline in new HIV infections. Cuts to federal funding could upend that progress.

Following immunotherapy treatments in the last decade, new therapeutic strategies for cancer are beginning to emerge.

Trump’s executive orders are affecting how federally funded journals operate. Some researchers have raised alarms.

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 ...

Most people used to think the Crestone Needle, a jagged peak in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo range, was unclimbable. Until, that is, Albert Ellingwood and Eleanor Davis reached its summit in 1916.

Federal government documents released last year suggest that marijuana is less likely to cause harm and is not as prone to abuse as other controlled substances or alcohol. And while cannabis is still ...

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 ...

Such actions have driven fears of a long-term, nationwide decline in biomedical research under President Donald Trump. A headline at Mother Jones described the proposed reform to NIH overhead cost ...

The most immutable fact they teach you in medical school is that anatomy is the absolute bedrock of surgery. As an eager young surgical intern, I often got doused in my patients’ vomit and shit. I ...