Infectious disease experts say shots against meningococcal meningitis can be lifesaving during an outbreak, but U.S.

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand exactly how years of taking hits to the head while playing sports can ...

This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

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And that same day, the temperature just outside Martinez Lake, Ariz., reached 110 degrees F (43 degrees C)—the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S. The heat wave that is engulfing much ...

Autism researchers are working to counter a federal autism advisory panel that they say has vaccine skeptic members and a ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

For years, ACIP has advised U.S. vaccine policy. But after changes to its members made by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. were challenged in court, the Trump administration is apparently chang ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...

A new class of weight loss drug just took a major step toward approval for use. In a phase III clinical trial, medication ...

Gallup’s annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social media influences well-being ...