On a rare, clear day, one can look due west from the Mount Wilson Observatory, perched at nearly 6,000 feet on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and see the wide basin of the San Fernando Valley. A ...

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1 percent decline from 2024. The fertility rate dropped to 53.1 births per 1,000 ...

In 2010, Sylvia Fogel’s 2-year-old son developed an upper respiratory illness and soon lost his ability to speak, make eye contact, and relate with others. He screamed for long periods of time and ...

During the week between two experimental infusions at the Danish Headache Center, where I had agreed to be a test subject, I rented a small flat in central Copenhagen, near Assistens Cemetery. This is ...

The research and development team at the U.S. Forest Service employs about 1,500 people full-time, a small but mighty faction inside an agency that, until recently, was 35,000 strong. The research it ...

Yale psychiatrist Albert Powers didn’t know what to expect as he strolled among the tarot card readers, astrologers, and crystal vendors at the psychic fair held at the Best Western outside North ...

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 ...

In a video posted to YouTube in September, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at U.S. health agencies that he said have allowed for the mass poisoning of American children. Standing behind packages of ...

Up until a couple years ago, an attorney in his late 30s used to repeatedly check his vehicle for signs that he might have injured a pedestrian. The man had no reason to think he had actually hit ...

In the summer of 2022, Abdel Abdellaoui was set to give a keynote at the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research. But when he learned he’d be sharing a speaker roster ...

Last September, Eliezer Masliah, a prominent Alzheimer’s disease researcher, stepped away from his influential position at the National Institutes of Health after the organization, where he oversaw a ...

This story was co-reported by Teresa Carr for Undark and Margaret Manto for NOTUS. When he realized that Senate Republicans were characterizing his federally funded research project as one of many ...