This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance ...

The study used a national Medicaid claims database and excluded Oregon, South Dakota and Arkansas because of reporting ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

A new study out in the journal Science Advances finds that chronic exposure to wildfire smoke has contributed to tens of ...

A new kind of pill sharply reduced cholesterol in people at high risk of heart attacks despite taking statins.

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, ...

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...

Breakthroughs in research take time and money, and that's where the National Institutes of Health has been a reliable partner ...

A new study suggests that lifespan might be 50% heritable — although for now, it's hard to know if the finding applies across diverse populations.

Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...