Homesick for a World Unknown,” by Miriam Horn, is an intimate portrait of renowned wildlife biologist George Schaller.

As cases mount, industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

Some analysts think the markets could out-compete polls in newsrooms and more, but the approaches are vastly different.

In “The Return of the Oystercatcher,” Scott Weidensaul examines bird conservation successes as some populations rebound.

Bush signed into law an outpatient pharmacy benefit, called Part D, in 2003 that the program included prescription drug coverage. Medicare’s outpatient drug benefit includes what are called the ...

Title X funding appears to be shifting away from contraception. Experts say that's unlikely to change fertility rates.

Finding ways to ease the suffering of beached whales has been a challenge. Whale experts may have found an answer.

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 ...

To the naked eye, Annie Kathuria’s experiments look a bit like tiny tufts of cotton floating in pink Petri dishes. These unassuming orbs are clusters of millions of human brain cells called brain ...

On the desk of Jesse Keller’s office sits a big red bag about the size of a full sack of groceries, marked “biohazard.” It’s packed with prescription pill bottles filled with fibers, and his desk ...

CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. Some U.S. politicians are advocating for reform towards a single payer system, such as Medicare for All.

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.