In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks.

The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. Now it's gone dark.

Research suggests that rocket exhaust and debris could be threatening the ozone layer, though many uncertainties persist.

Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.

Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials.

President Trump’s sweeping nuclear energy and weapons agenda has prompted revisions of longstanding radiation standards.

An executive order upended an NIH policy requiring researchers to account for both sexes in preclinical animal studies.

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 ...

In 2015, Peter Stout, head of the Houston Forensic Science Center, began administering a test that was designed to not look like a test. Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the ...

Lewis A. Grossman’s book, “Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America,” was published over four years ago, but in many ways it seems to have anticipated the enthusiasm of today’s ...