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Under a new partnership, the Defense Department would play a larger role in biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Democrats warned it could allow a Pentagon cash grab.

The Japanese chemist played a key role in the discovery of electricity-conducting plastics, largely by accident.

Meet the earliest known insects. Shaking hands with them will take a while.

They are moving too fast for the normal mind to keep up, but elite drivers have more densely packed brain cells where it counts and use their minds more efficiently.

For the marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley, the most honest history can be found on the seafloor.

The preliminary research was conducted in mice, but scientists were optimistic the results would apply to humans. Clinical trials begin this month.

New research links climate policies to improved early-childhood development.

More than one million genomes helped identify DNA variants linked to extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and more. Researchers measured how those traits influenced how people lived.

Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape.

The outdoor apparel maker joined environmental and Native American groups in challenging President Trump's reduction of Bears Ears National Monument.