In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks.

Many view parental alienation syndrome as a harmful and pseudoscientific concept. Why does an academic debate persist?

There’s a vast difference between schools that have money and schools that don’t,” said LaComb, a senior at Lake Buena Vista High School and Florida state representative on the National Student ...

The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. Now it's gone dark.

Lauren Kennedy West was still a teenager when she began to smell and hear things that weren’t there. Then to see things, too, that were invisible to others. Meanwhile, her moods began to intensify, ...

In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being ...

The nation’s largest organization for medical examiners has issued a warning about a controversial, centuries-old forensic test that has contributed to cases in which pregnant women have been charged ...

Lewis A. Grossman’s book, “Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America,” was published over four years ago, but in many ways it seems to have anticipated the enthusiasm of today’s ...

Rocket launches used to be a rare occurrence. But with access to space proliferating, partly thanks to an abundance of commercial space companies, global launches have risen exponentially: In the last ...

Suzanne Simard's "When the Forest Breathes" is steeped in grief over the juggernaut of the modern logging industry.

Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.