“Don’t leave home without sunscreen!” “No Tan Is Worth the Risk!” “Protect the Skin You’re In!” If you haven’t heard these sun protection slogans, you’ve certainly heard a litany of others. The ...

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 ...

The proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher: “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as ...

For decades, a global transition has been underway: The slow, sometimes clumsy shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Changing just one industry requires a significant infrastructural makeover.

Peter Godfrey-Smith’s “Living on Earth” is a natural history “of organisms as causes, rather than evolutionary products.” His subject is the intricate connection between humans and nature, and the ...

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the organization now called March of Dimes, with the goal of wiping out polio, the viral disease that caused his paraplegia. Just 17 years later, clear ...

Those cuts and withdrawals have left a vacuum of an estimated $10 billion or more in global health. That makes the Gates Foundation — formerly known as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which ...

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 ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

Most people used to think the Crestone Needle, a jagged peak in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo range, was unclimbable. Until, that is, Albert Ellingwood and Eleanor Davis reached its summit in 1916.

Such actions have driven fears of a long-term, nationwide decline in biomedical research under President Donald Trump. A headline at Mother Jones described the proposed reform to NIH overhead cost ...

In many Western societies, parents eagerly await their children’s first words, then celebrate their arrival. There’s also a vast scientific and popular attention to early child language. Yet there is ...