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A rising body of research is trying to quantify the impact of personal climate actions. The results show the most powerful ...

As people everywhere mourn the loss of Dr. Jane Goodall after her death at the age of 91, many are looking back on her wise words shared over the years, especially when it comes to how we can help the ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp on what it even means to be conscious. But our purely human urge to ask the ...

Snapchat rankled some of its most loyal (and heavy) users when it announced last week it will begin charging for storage plans for Memories, its version of a digital archive for Snaps and stories.

Heavy metals are dangerous at high levels, but treatments that remove can also be risky and only benefit certain patients. Chelation therapy is used to treat acute cases of lead poisoning and other ...

Climate change deniers love to point out that plants flourish when carbon dioxide levels rise. As we burn fossil fuels, their thinking goes, the Earth will become greener and even more supportive of ...

Most of the federal government is shut down after Senate Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a funding agreement to keep it open. Democrats wanted to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies ...