Jennie Erin Smith’s “Valley of Forgetting” explores the genetic roots of early-onset dementia plaguing a mountain region.

A research team projects that changes to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.

Thus begins Thomas Levenson’s thought-provoking book, “So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs — ...

Norway's crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

Under Trump, the U.S. will no longer recommended Covid shots for healthy pregnant women. Does the evidence support that ...

Research funding cuts may lead to shrinking Ph.D. classes, raising concerns about impacts on the science-driven economy.

As the summer field season ramps up, agency researchers are grappling with uncertainty in funding, labor, and logistics.

Yale psychiatrist Albert Powers didn’t know what to expect as he strolled among the tarot card readers, astrologers, and crystal vendors at the psychic fair held at the Best Western outside North ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

Up until a couple years ago, an attorney in his late 30s used to repeatedly check his vehicle for signs that he might have injured a pedestrian. The man had no reason to think he had actually hit ...

Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in ...