The original report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

An unusual collaboration between scientists and psychics could transform the treatment of auditory hallucinations.

The agency will encourage new clinical trials on Covid-19 vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults.

Amid restructuring, the agency is likely to gut its research program for evaluating the health risks of toxic chemicals.

Recent years have seen a 12 percent decline in new HIV infections. Cuts to federal funding could upend that progress.

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

A forest fire may happen to a tree, but the reverse can also be true: A tree happens to a fire. A scientist would say that the Ponderosa pine, for instance, has adapted to fire: In other words, it has ...

On the outskirts of the northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth.

In many Western societies, parents eagerly await their children’s first words, then celebrate their arrival. There’s also a vast scientific and popular attention to early child language. Yet there is ...

Did you know that sperm whales make sounds using “lips” located near their blowholes — and that those sounds are so loud they could burst the eardrums of a human diver at close range? Or that, near ...