Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, ...

Boys are more likely to be diagnosed as autistic as children—but by adulthood, that trend changes, according to a new study ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

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.

The study evaluates how omega-3 delivery architecture influences triglyceride outcomes and omega-3 incorporation in ...

A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in socially complex species. The findings show diverse sexual behaviors are common — ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...

Many health videos on YouTube, even those made by doctors, may not be giving viewers reliable medical information, a new ...

The introduction of mandatory photo ID in the 2024 general election may not have provided the security boost promised by the ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

A t first, it looked like a paradigm of science done right. A group of behavioral scientists had repeated the same experiments over and over in separate labs, following the same rigorous methods, and ...

Wake Forest University School of Medicine has been awarded a 10-year, $49.5 million contract from the National Heart, Lung ...