Equity will require educating medical staff, reducing maternity and fertility costs for employees, and investing more in female health research.
Ice can trap pollutants and accelerate their breakdown, with troubling environmental consequences.
Startup Accexible says the way you talk can indicate preclinical Alzheimer’s or other underlying health conditions.
Lunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast.
New research shows that seabirds’ ingestion of the pollutant scars their insides—a new disease called “plasticosis”—and may disturb their microbiomes.
The neocortex is the seat of human intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.
As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.
To see if those videos of people conjuring liquid without any external power actually hold water, you’ll need physics—and a straw.
Privately run genealogy databases have become a crucial tool for police investigators. Now a nonprofit is collecting data to help crack more cold cases.
Governments are ignoring calls to stop fossil fuel expansion—despite there being little time left to avoid the worst effects of global warming.
An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.
The hard electrodes inserted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s and paralysis damage the organ’s soft tissue. A new invention could change that.
Wild hogs destroy crops, uproot landscapes, and spread diseases—and not much is stopping them.
The planet is on track for catastrophic warming unless countries take extreme action, according to the IPCC’s latest climate report.
A set of Soyuz spacecraft coolant leaks hints that Roscosmos is struggling as the space agency loses international partnerships and funding.
Type Ia supernovas are astronomers’ best tools for measuring cosmic distances. In a first, researchers recreated one on a supercomputer to learn how they form.
Botanists and community stewards are using patches of native flora as blueprints to revive tropical dry evergreen ecosystems from near-extinction.
In the face of safety risks, experts have tightened the reins on heritable genome editing—but haven’t ruled out using it someday.
The US is proposing bold action to clean thousands of “forever chemicals” out of drinking water. It’s long overdue.
Early research aims to look for patterns in an individual’s sleep sounds using deep neural networks—with potential applications for health care.