The mission hinted at what space travel could look like in a more accessible future, while remaining in reach now to only the...
Prevention and treatment fell in poor countries last year as access to health care declined, according to a new report.
The drug has spared hundreds of millions of Africans from serious parasites, but clinical trials have repeatedly failed to show...
The company, under pressure from app developers and regulators, is making concessions while protecting lucrative parts of its...
Researchers ended a large trial in South Africa after finding that an experimental vaccine offered little protection.
Among the 3,000 fossils seized at a Brazilian port in 2013 was an almost complete skeleton from the pterosaur species Tupandactylus...
After years of shooting meteorites with a special gun owned by NASA, researchers highlighted challenges for a preferred method...
Irisin, a hormone produced by muscles during exercise, can enter the brain and improve cognition, a mouse study suggests.
In “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern offers a dual biography of George Gamow and Fred Hoyle, two midcentury physicists who...
Research suggests that people with freely moving thoughts are happier. Easy, repetitive activities like walking can help get...