The billionaire's new job raises tricky First Amendment questions, with implications for public health, says Ari Cohn.

Advocates and transgender people are worried the directive will discourage medical care they consider to be lifesaving.

I ndia extracts more groundwater than any other country worldwide, even more than the U.S. and China combined. In 2024, the ...

Researchers are sprinting to compile their own datasets and DIY sites. Lawmakers aren't doing much to reverse course.

Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

Stefan Kertesz, a physician and addiction expert, says overaggressive cutbacks can harm some chronic pain patients.

As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown quickly and in huge quantities. Onyeaka wondered ...

What are the odds of an asteroid of dangerous dimensions striking the planet? If you wait long enough, it’s 100 percent. And they don’t even have to be especially gargantuan to cause widespread harm: ...

On some unknown day in 2027, if all goes as planned, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch toward the dark void beyond Earth’s atmosphere, carrying with it the basic makings of a space station that ...