From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s views on vaccines to Medicaid, here are some ways his nomination for head of the Department of ...

Helping people remain healthy and fit for as long as possible will be crucial as populations around the world get older.

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to ...

Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds.

Mike Zeitz is managing editor for physical sciences at Spektrum der Wissenschaft, a partner publication of Scientific American. He studied physics in Heidelberg, Germany, where he shot X-rays at tiny ...

President Donald Trump’s sudden move to freeze federal grants is hitting states where people are struggling to recover from ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Most grocery stores seem to offer endless options in their aisles, which are full of cereals, pastas and baked goods ...

Some health professionals have spoken out about President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Secretary ...

In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

Innisfree McKinnon is an associate professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. A geographer explains how maps’ place names, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, are decided Learn ...

The board voted to change the name and took its request to the county commissioners. When the county agreed, the request was ...