Science

Life as a short plant can be tough. Taller competitors hog the sunlight, leaving shrimpier species to photosynthesize from whatever...

Monkeypox, once a relatively obscure virus endemic to Africa, has bloomed into a global threat, infecting more than 20,000 people...

Over six weeks this spring, 23 children were admitted to a Tennessee hospital for treatment of parechovirus, a common virus...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Late one Saturday evening in June, two men in their 20s stood across from each other, shirtless...

The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic...

Deep in the waters along a volcanic ridge in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sea explorers using a remotely...

Move over birds and bees, there is another pollinator on planet Earth, and it lives in the sea.In a study,...

The climate and tax deal announced by Senate Democrats on Wednesday would pump hundreds of billions of dollars into programs...

WASHINGTON — The $369 billion climate and tax package forged in a surprise deal by Senate Democrats on Wednesday would...

The coronavirus pandemic walloped rural America last year, precipitating a surge of deaths among white residents as the virus inflamed...