Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...

The focal point for much of the work in the last few years is NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or HAQAST.

Ocean acidification occurs when the ocean absorbs excess carbon dioxide, causing its pH to drop. This makes it harder for ...

The accidental release of fluoxetine in a aquarium filled with clams gave bivalve husbandry an unexpected new tool.

The research hospital cares for people with rare or life-threatening diseases. This year, patient numbers plummeted.

In 2009, the agency concluded climate change endangers humans and the environment. Now, Lee Zeldin plans to reverse course.

Digital sequence information has radically changed the way researchers look at the world’s genetic resources.

The foreskin-removal procedure raises tricky questions about medicine, consent, bodily autonomy, and sexual pleasure.

In 2019, Debra Halsch was diagnosed with smoldering multiple myeloma, a rare blood and bone marrow disorder that can develop into a type of blood cancer. Her doctors recommended chemotherapy, she said ...

Evolution is a work in progress, so it’s hardly surprising that some of the features it has built into the human body are still far from optimal. And of all those features, one of the hardest to ...

Researchers typically ask why people get cancer. What if they studied why some survive — or never develop the disease?

By a quirk of geography, the Orkney islands, located off the northern tip of Scotland, are unusually well positioned to bear witness to the ocean’s might. On the archipelago’s western shores, waves ...