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The agency is asking the White House to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes.

Some young climate activists who were galvanized under Donald Trump's first presidency are taking a different approach to his second.

They would become the most commonly seen species to receive federal protection if the proposal is adopted.

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for the first time in thousands of years.

Starting at 30, women can collect their own vaginal samples for HPV testing at a doctor's office.

Widespread adoption of heat pumps could prevent thousands of premature deaths and save billions on energy bills, according to a new analysis.

Four Palestinian researchers describe how conflict in Gaza and the West Bank has hindered their careers in science and medicine.

Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. "would put the public's health in jeopardy," more than 75 laureates wrote.

Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That's older than the universe.)

The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.