Science

A Food and Drug Administration official with considerable power over authorization decisions for e-cigarettes and products aimed at curbing smoking...

The idea made so much sense it was almost unquestioningly accepted: Vitamin D pills can protect bones from fractures. After...

In many ways, humans are weird mammals. And our relationship with milk is especially weird.In every mammalian species, females produce...

It’s big. It’s bad. It will take off your head, eat your family and destroy your home. If you are...

James Lovelock, the maverick British ecologist whose work was essential to today’s understanding of man-made pollutants and their effect on...

A white, Teflon-coated jacket worn by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969...

Floods can surge all year round, in every region of the world. But discerning the relationship between any given flood...

So she started to provide a replacement for the street drugs, first Dilaudid, then fentanyl patches, and, now, the fentanyl...

The world’s most iconic dinosaur is undergoing an identity crisis.In February, a team of scientists posited that Tyrannosaurus rex was...

This week, temperatures in Britain reached a record 40.3 degrees Celsius, or 104.5 Fahrenheit, capping a brutal heat wave that...