Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as ...

Carbs at Night? For years, athletes have heard the same advice: Don't eat carbs at night—they'll turn straight into fat. But ...

Studies show parents are more likely to have bigger families when kids are the same gender, creating patterns that look biological—but may be behavioral.

A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological ...

Research into the growing environmental problem of urban gullies highlights the challenging conditions under which many ...

In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper ...

Cornell researchers have uncovered the genetic triggers that cause male and female bovine embryos to develop differently, as early as seven to eight days after fertilization. The breakthrough in basic ...

One in three Japanese people is said to have high blood pressure, a condition that leads to more than 10,000 deaths annually ...

A relatively old drug -- metformin -- may hold the key to preventing life-threatening illness and bolstering human longevity, ...

Could a natural check on cancer be used to stop the disease? It's possible, but to leverage a system that nature designed, we ...

Major publishers have had to retract thousands of papers and shut down journals due to the influx of fake studies, indicating ...

Thought experiments can have some advantages over real experiments: they require no special equipment, are low-cost, can be ...