A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

The lifeblood of Silicon Valley — advanced microchips — pumps from a science park on Taiwan's west coast, mostly from TSMC, ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started. Dogs are believed to be the first domesticated ...

Have you ever fantasized about going back in time to relive a moment — or change it? Maybe you’re more interested in ...

Marion Nestle says we should eat "real food, processed as little as possible." Justin Chang reviews Hamnet. Mary Roach ...

Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID ...

Food policy expert and nutritionist Marion Nestle's 2006 book, ‘What to Eat,’ became a consumer bible of sorts when it came out, guiding readers through the supermarket while exposing how industry ...

Dr. Sandro Galea, a distinguished professor in public health and dean of the Washington University School of Public Health, warns that the administration's turn toward alternative medicine risks ...

Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other ...

With job losses, food benefit reductions and higher prices, many in the U.S. are having to scrimp this holiday season.

We can’t protect what we don’t understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, ...