The focal point for much of the work in the last few years is NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or HAQAST.

One of the world’s foremost climate models, a DOE initiative a decade in the works, now faces funding threats.

In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter takes aim at the nation's drug treatment system and finds it sorely lacking.

Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...

As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — ...

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Brett Murphy, and Le Van, ProPublica ...

In “Nature and the Mind,” Marc Berman uses neuroscience to show how interacting with nature benefits mental health.

Evolution is a work in progress, so it’s hardly surprising that some of the features it has built into the human body are still far from optimal. And of all those features, one of the hardest to ...

The foreskin-removal procedure raises tricky questions about medicine, consent, bodily autonomy, and sexual pleasure.