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New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.

A new nonprofit wants to streamline gene therapy for diseases often avoided by pharmaceutical companies -- making treatment more like a routine procedure than a bespoke drug.

The president joined Republican officials who slammed the National Academies of Sciences for a chapter about climate science in an educational guide for judges.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, wastewater testing became a virus warning system. Now, scientists are using the approach to understand how communities eat.

Genetic prediction models are poised to revolutionize medicine. But because they have been trained on European DNA, they threaten to widen health care disparities.

The implicated products were marketed under several brands, and had been shipped as recently as Thursday.

Known for tracking California wildfires, Watch Duty is moving beyond that mission. Millions of people are turning to it for help.

A lack of sirens and flood forecasting systems made the state's Hill Country vulnerable to deadly floods last summer. That has changed.

He received a 1992 Nobel Prize for developing a theory that explained fundamental processes behind photosynthesis, respiration, oxidation and even how fireflies produce light.