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A recent meeting about the disconnect between scientific and public beliefs points to ways researchers can improve how they communicate with skeptics.

Information made public by US Senator Chuck Grassley reveals that a handful of allegations have recently been referred to federal investigators.

In the last year, the butterfly’s eastern group has more than doubled its hibernation area while the other population waned. Plus, researchers are moving trees to save monarch habitat.

New studies suggest forebears’ age and physical proximity matter when it comes to their grandkids’ survival.

The outbreak has infected 50,000 people and killed 300, most of them children, since cases began to crop up in October 2018.

The past five years have been the warmest-ever, NASA and NOAA announce.

Donald Trump announced a plan to drastically cut HIV transmission by 2030, but some scientists and nonprofits aren’t sure the administration will follow through.

Imaging of the human brain reveals constellations of activity associated with conscious and unconscious states.

Countries with populations whose average adult height grew late last century are more likely to have high rates of babies delivered surgically.

Many types of marine plankton are either animal-like or plant-like. But a huge number are both, and they are upending ideas about ocean ecology.

Mice exposed to heat wave temperatures ate less and showed weakened immune responses to the virus.

The protein expression data, which are freely available online, could help identify new drug targets for the disease.