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The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region.

Scientists recreated a formula involving ants and milk that is used in Bulgarian villages to yield yogurt with an herbaceous flavor.

As our diagnostic categories expand to include ever milder versions of disease, researchers propose that the act of naming a malady can itself bring relief.

The comets A6 (Lemmon) and R2 (SWAN) are visitors from the chilly fringes of our solar system, and could even be visible at the same time.

As our diagnostic categories expand to include ever milder versions of disease, researchers propose that the act of naming a malady can itself bring relief.

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was on administrative leave, alleged that the Trump administration had defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.

The decision enraged opponents of abortion, who have been pressuring the administration to restrict access to abortion medication.

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf's atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way.

The past decade in particular has seen an uptick in devastating blazes linked to climate change, according to the study.

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as "one of the Western world's great scientific achievements."