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Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice released its first batch of files on disgraced financier and convicted sex ...

The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming is affecting the country. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from Washington The ...

Dozens of veteran climate scientists are launching a coordinated response to a Trump administration report that casts doubt on the severity of climate change. The report, released last week alongside ...

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades. At an international conference, ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

For centuries, scientists have noticed that certain illnesses seem to pass from one generation to the next, a connection first noted by Hippocrates, who observed that some diseases "ran in families." ...

Exercise appears to spark a whole-body anti-aging cascade, and scientists have now mapped out how it happens—and how a simple oral compound can mimic it. By following volunteers through rest, intense ...