Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?

The U.S. has one of the world’s most advanced systems to monitor air pollutants. Can it keep up with a changing climate?

Millions have been spent to catch plagiarism and AI with tools from education company Turnitin. Is the tech worth it?

The move will likely solidify the foundation’s outsized role in global health, particularly as the United States, the United ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

When Ebola swept through West Africa in the mid-2010s, Ashish Jha joined a chorus of health experts criticizing the World Health Organization’s response. The global health agency, these critics said, ...

It isn’t hard to see why. Among mainstream scientists, the word feminist has often been viewed with disdain, hostility, and an implicit belief that feminist ideals are incompatible with true science — ...

In the spring of 2009, Samantha Noel, then a doctoral researcher at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, reached into Cow D’s rumen and plucked out a strain of Lachnospiraceae bacterium ...

The smaller the particles, the more worrying they are. Particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less in diameter — a fraction of the width of a human hair — is referred to as PM10, and it is ...

The placenta, a temporary organ that appears during pregnancy to help support a growing fetus, didn’t look as it should. Instead, it “looked like a rock,” said Parast. As far as they could tell, no ...