I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a ...

In 2011, a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp burned for 111 days. Even a foot of rain from Hurricane Irene failed to extinguish ...

A new USC-led study finds Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias will cost the United States an estimated $818 billion ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where ...

Tim Spector spent 15 years studying nutrition without bias, and what he found upended his own kitchen. He pulled margarine ...

I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a New York City hospital as he prayed in a language I did ...

Neanderthals thrived across Europe and the Middle East for hundreds of thousands of years. They occupied vast distances, ranging from Europe through the Altai Mountains in Central Asia. They survived ...

A routine check-up at the dentist ends with bad news: tooth decay has left a large cavity, and the tooth needs a crown. The ...

Contact lenses are a great vision correction option for many, but if one of them gets damaged, there is little to do other ...

West Virginia University researchers are developing new laser-based techniques to observe plasma behavior in unprecedented ...

The question of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings – and why they originally evolved in the ...