Millions of women have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. But diagnoses and treatments vary considerably.

Peatlands act as a crucial climate regulator, and are increasingly at the center of conflicts over resource extraction.

Amid Trump-era funding turmoil, foundations are finding themselves pulled in many directions to fill in the gaps.

For months, agency scientists have been waiting for the Trump administration to release their final report on PFNA.

New research suggests sunlight has unexpected benefits, but this doesn't mean everyone should ditch their sunscreen.

In "Born," Lucy Inglis reexamines history through the lens of gender roles, medical authority, and bodily autonomy.

Ashburn is a largely middle-class, predominately African American, Hispanic, and Latino community on Chicago’s far Southwest Side. The community borders two neighboring suburbs and is known for its ...

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions.

In the beginning, the Big Bang happened, sending everything in the universe expanding outward and apart, from a dense hot point. Since then, all that matter and energy has continued to move outward, ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

But what does the research say about where public trust in science, doctors, and health care institutions actually stands? In recent years, researchers have been increasingly looking into quantifying ...

William C. Thompson does not ordinarily hunt for bugs, and his scrutiny of a type of computational algorithm that analyze DNA started out innocently enough. Investigators used software in a case from ...