Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and ...

Brooke Scelza is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s department of anthropology. She is co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, where she studies ...

Growing awareness of how addiction and trauma are intertwined has birthed a new generation of treatment strategies.

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have both been drenched by torrential rains ...

Even for serious bird-watchers, Black-capped Chickadees and Carolina Chickadees are tough to tell apart. Both are members of ...

Invasive spotted lanternflies are spreading across the metro areas of New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., ...