California holds vast stores of lithium. But mining projects stir debate over environmental costs and economic benefits.

Last week, the agency's bedrock "endangerment finding" that greenhouse gases threaten human life was overturned.

Since the 1980s, athletes have been using fluorinated waxes on their boards, giving them "ridiculous" speed. No longer.

With cuts to Obamacare looming, the U.S. could look to the Netherlands for a model of a sustainable multi-payer system.

Does the technology prevent shootings? The evidence is thin. Critics suggest security companies are preying on fear.

In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

"The Great Shadow," by Susan Wise Bauer, is a sweeping survey of humanity’s relationship to illness over the centuries.

In the spring of 2024, Flynn McGuire started to notice glowing references online to an unapproved drug that proponents claimed could help the body heal more quickly. McGuire is a chief medical ...

When organizations need to make an announcement they hope the public won’t pay much attention to, they often drop the news right before the weekend. On a Friday afternoon this past October, in the ...