As the agency considers seven unapproved peptides, Michael A. Sekeres traces the origins of the FDA’s authority.

In an effort to reduce wasteful spending, the government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

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 ...

In 1975, in a medical school classroom in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Predrag Sikiric had an idea that he has pursued for more than 50 years. His obsessive quest would ...

The pioneering field biologist George B. Schaller was born into an era at odds with his life’s work. By the time he reached places like Brazil, India, and the Himalayas, ecological destruction was ...

But as author Scott Weidensaul points out, some groups of birds are either thriving or rebounding. They include waterbirds like ducks, swans, and geese, as well as raptors — birds of prey with sharp ...

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted online its first large tranche of advanced genetic data from measles viruses spreading last year. Scientists with knowledge of the ...

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 a video that has been played almost 50,000 times since it was posted five months ago, two cartoon children sing along as they guide viewers through the experience of riding in a car amid a vividly ...

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 ...

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 ...