The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.

Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of the disease.

The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.

More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak ...

The CDC is piloting a disease forecasting service called Insight Net. Could it be a game-changer for public health?

Brooke Borel: So Tom originally came to me with this idea for this podcast to dig into scientific controversies in a ...

In March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the intensive care unit with severe ...

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William C. Thompson does not ordinarily hunt for bugs, and his scrutiny of a type of computational algorithm that analyze DNA started out innocently enough. Investigators used software in a case from ...

The project was so secret, most members of Congress didn’t even know it existed. In 1942, when an elite team of physicists set out to produce an atomic bomb, military leaders took elaborate steps to ...