Some experts say the tests, which can spot multiple kinds of cancer, aren’t yet sensitive enough to be widely used.

Emma Chapman's "The Echoing Universe" is a vivid survey of the hidden parts of the cosmos and those who seek them out.

Last month, I was fortunate to participate in an event hosted by Open to Debate, a one-hour weekly program broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country, and the SNF Agora Institute ...

Today, Sikiric and his team describe BPC-157 as an all-purpose healing compound. Laboratory experiments with animals and cell cultures, they write, suggest the peptide may treat everything from muscle ...

When George LaComb moved two years ago to a new high school in Orlando, Florida, he quickly noticed safety precautions that the football team at his previous, less affluent school never had. There was ...

Tropodo is a pretty village of narrow streets and brightly colored houses, set amid lush green fields in the eastern part of Java, Indonesia’s most populous island. Tall chimneys puffing streams of ...

When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years. The government had deemed him trustworthy through his career in the Army. But ...

On a mild day in mid-November, among a clutch of oaks and sycamores, more than a dozen people encircled a small fire. Some lay splayed on the ground or on blankets, others perched on camp stools. Many ...

In “The Great River,” journalist Boyce Upholt chronicles the long, checkered history of our efforts to control the Mississippi River with locks, levees, and dams. Such meddling has saddled the country ...

In the spring of 2024, Ali Kharrazi, then an editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, or CRSUST, received a routine request to review several papers.

Just EAST of downtown Albuquerque, in the basement of a blocky beige University of New Mexico building, sits a machine that looks like a sci-fi piece of industrial equipment. Metal cylinders, painted ...