NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

P eter Hotez has made every effort to stay up to date with Covid-19 vaccines, starting with the initial two doses and ...

The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.

City officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires thinking about more than buildings.

A novel private plan in the late 1980s helped set the stage for planting trees as a means to sequester carbon emissions.

The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.

CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. Recent approvals by the Food and Drug Administration have focused on medications that shrink the sticky ...

More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine.

What’s the best way to discuss vaccines with a politically polarized public? Jeffrey Morris has been considering this question since the Covid-19 pandemic, when he created a dedicated blog and ramped ...