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Two news stories this week — one that made headlines, and one that got less attention — point to the...

After years of dangerous decline in the nation’s groundwater, a series of developments in Western states indicate that state and...

Vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus may have caused a few cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological condition, federal health...

Why It Matters: Vaccines often arrive too late to stamp out outbreaks.Public health response to outbreaks often relies heavily on...

Guy Alexandre, a Belgian transplant surgeon who in the 1960s risked professional censure by removing kidneys from brain-dead patients whose...

Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in Texas, a danger made real this week as the Smokehouse Creek...

West Texas, from the oil rigs of the Permian Basin to the wind turbines twirling above the High Plains, has...

Clocks and calendars are handy, even if they are out of step with the astronomical world.Earth’s actual orbit around the...

For the last decade, many Apple employees working on the company’s secretive car project, internally code-named Titan, had a less...

Long Covid may lead to measurable cognitive decline, especially in the ability to remember, reason and plan, a large new...