Advocates and transgender people are worried the directive will discourage medical care they consider to be lifesaving.

At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

P resident Donald Trump’s early actions on health care signal his likely intention to wipe away some Biden-era programs to ...

I ndia extracts more groundwater than any other country worldwide, even more than the U.S. and China combined. In 2024, the ...

Stefan Kertesz, a physician and addiction expert, says overaggressive cutbacks can harm some chronic pain patients.

What’s the best way to discuss vaccines with a politically polarized public? Jeffrey Morris has been considering this question since the Covid-19 pandemic, when he created a dedicated blog and ramped ...

Around a decade ago, a patient in the Netherlands went to his doctor with a request for euthanasia. He was in his 40s, suffering from depression and psychosis, and haunted by feelings of despair, ...

On some unknown day in 2027, if all goes as planned, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch toward the dark void beyond Earth’s atmosphere, carrying with it the basic makings of a space station that ...