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CLIMATEWIRE | EPA’s proposal to limit toxic pollution from heavy-duty trucks is stronger than anything that has come before it....

In the past three decades, suicides involving guns have steadily dropped around the world. While down overall in the US...

Some editorials simply hurt to write. This is one. At least 19 elementary school children and two teachers are dead,...

Baking a mixture of saltwater and materials that mimic dust from the moon or Mars at a high temperature produced...

It was 6:30 A.M., and I was getting ready to head down to the operating room (OR) for the first...

A study of people in the US suggests those at high genetic risk of dementia are less likely to develop...

There’s more than just pollen riding on a springtime breeze. Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant...

Just how big was the January eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano? Four months of intensive science has only bumped up...

No well-intentioned researcher expects that their work will be used to justify violence. But following the racist massacre of 10...

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things...

Bitcoin is a digital currency which operates free of any central control or the oversight of banks or governments. Instead...

Epithelial cells in the gut remain active in mice even after an irritant clears, which may be the source of...

Ending abortion protections in the US could start the unravelling of many hard-won rights – with dire consequences for health...

By Sam Wong Shutterstock/Rozdemir THE idea that we can improve our gut health by eating foods containing live “friendly” bacteria,...

We now know of more than 5,000 exoplanets beyond the solar system. What we really understand about each of these...

Poorly supported assumptions about typical levels of lung function among Black men in the US are leading medics to miss...