The human body is a master at regulating itself. For example, if your blood pressure rises precipitously, it will cause your arterial wall to stretch. Receptors in your body will sense this change and ...

On a lonely planet, billions of years ago, a soup of chemicals — in the right place, at the right time, and with the right conditions — shifted from an unalive assemblage into something scientists ...

Stereotypes die hard. If we’re asked to picture a scientist at work, it’s tempting to reach for an old stand-by: the astronomer at the eyepiece of an enormous telescope, or the chemist surrounded by ...

When the first European settlers arrived on the east coast of North America in the 16th century, they found a land filled with astounding natural wonders and biological richness. Herds of elk and ...

For decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has served as a gatekeeper, tasked with preventing dangerous, ineffective, and under-studied pharmaceuticals from being placed on the market. If you ...

If you’re like me, you or a loved one has struggled through the process of gaining pre-approval for the medical care that your physician has recommended. Personal stories abound regarding the ...

Other animals may have some capacity to grasp small numbers, but only humans have jumped on the number train and steamed ahead full throttle. As mathematician and author Richard Elwes sees it, it all ...

Alissa Deming pierced the whale’s heart on her first try. Bright arterial blood shot up the needle as she started pumping potassium chloride, a medication used to euthanize animals, into the ...

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.

Many vaccine experts were dismayed. Members of the panel, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, must follow strict rules regarding conflicts. Further, some of Kennedy’s ...

Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO2 emissions in the country, claiming that the American power ...

The research and development team at the U.S. Forest Service employs about 1,500 people full-time, a small but mighty faction inside an agency that, until recently, was 35,000 strong. The research it ...