Results from two major studies suggest tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are now at risk.

The pharmacologist gathered more than 60 researchers to push back on the retraction of a Monsanto-linked research paper.

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

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 ...

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

In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter ...

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 ...

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 ...