More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak ...

Brooke Borel: So Tom originally came to me with this idea for this podcast to dig into scientific controversies in a ...

Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of the disease.

The CDC is piloting a disease forecasting service called Insight Net. Could it be a game-changer for public health?

Workers are pushing to improve training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution, and equipment failure.

The project was so secret, most members of Congress didn’t even know it existed. In 1942, when an elite team of physicists set out to produce an atomic bomb, military leaders took elaborate steps to ...

In August, 1945, American pilots dropped newly engineered atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, evaporating tens of thousands of people in an instant, and killing many tens of thousands more in the ...

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What does a gazelle think when a member of its herd becomes a lion’s dinner? Questions like these have been very much on the mind of the Spanish philosopher Susana Monsó, whose new book, “Playing ...

"Vanishing Treasures," by Katherine Rundell, is a passionate plea to save the planet's living cabinet of curiosities.