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?

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.

Although the evidence is limited, some psychologists are increasingly using ketogenic diets to treat psychiatric disorders.

Critics of Haidt’s take suggest that the evidence is mixed regarding whether increasing levels of teen mental health problems ...

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

In recent years, however, some researchers and parents have hoped that increasingly sophisticated monitoring technologies might provide a crucial edge against an otherwise vexing syndrome. Monitoring ...

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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 ...