A skin condition tied to delusions is posing a riddle for doctors: What to do when a diagnosis causes offense?

HHS states it was cleaning up "dated content." But advocates for people with autism say the warnings are still needed.

California holds vast stores of lithium. But mining projects stir debate over environmental costs and economic benefits.

Last week, the agency's bedrock "endangerment finding" that greenhouse gases threaten human life was overturned.

Does the technology prevent shootings? The evidence is thin. Critics suggest security companies are preying on fear.

With cuts to Obamacare looming, the U.S. could look to the Netherlands for a model of a sustainable multi-payer system.

One day in 1905, the French geophysicist Bernard Brunhes brought back to his lab some rocks he’d unearthed from a freshly cut road near the village of Pont Farin. When he analyzed their magnetic ...

Tim Baucom has done this before. The Milan Cortina Games will be his third Olympics as a wax technician for the United States’ cross-country ski team, a job characterized by long flights schlepping ...

On May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in Montana. Read, a chemical engineering student, had ...

The lawsuits join a recent uptick in legal action against universities, departments, and professional societies that host programs intended to increase diversity across academia, including in the ...

Authors don’t get to choose what’s going on in the world when their books are published. More than a few luckless writers ended up with a publication date of Sept. 11, 2001, or perhaps Nov. 8, 2016, ...