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.

Kathryn Paige Harden's "Original Sin" explores the genetic roots of sin and guilt, and our attitudes toward punishment.

Research is identifying alternative methods to the polygraph, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

Industrial-grade buoys are being installed to prevent unauthorized crossings, but the environmental impact is unknown.

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

Low-quality, mass-produced video content is alarming child development experts. Few guardrails are in place to stop it.

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

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 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was running for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination when he sat for an interview with Jordan B. Peterson, a controversial Canadian psychologist, during his eponymous ...