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As deaths from diabetes start to rival those from infectious threats like malaria, a new form of the condition linked to malnutrition is surfacing in patients who can afford neither screening nor care.

He helped discover cancer-causing genes. Later, as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, he led a major expansion.

After a seven-ton fireball exploded above the Cleveland area, a group of meteorite hunters descended too, in the name of science -- and possibly cash.

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.

Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator, will address a Heartland Institute forum in April. The organization says speakers will challenge the climate crisis "narrative."

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.

Affordable Care Act enrollment has dropped across the United States since the enhanced federal subsidies expired. But New Mexico has record numbers of people signing up.

The suit accuses the agency of illegally repealing the endangerment finding, the scientific assessment that required it to regulate greenhouse gases.

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Several of the Earth's systems are changing faster than predicted as global temperatures rise, scientists say.