In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.

Imagine a world where in a matter of minutes, scientists could identify drugs to treat incurable diseases, design chemicals that could break down plastics to clean up pollution, and develop new ...

With electric demand from data centers skyrocketing, the state considers how to meet its goal of decarbonizing the grid.

Across the North American West, giant, ancient, gnarled whitebark pines grow along mountain ridges where practically no other ...

In the summer of 1919, John Johnson, a biology professor at what was then known as Western State College, headed off to do ...

There exists something in medicine called the “doorknob phenomenon.” It’s when a doctor, just about to leave the company of a patient (with a doorknob possibly in grasp), finally hears them divulge ...

A better understanding of the placenta may help curb maternal and fetal mortality rates, but progress is slow.