In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we know today as X-rays. Realizing the technology could benefit the medical ...

For decades, Christian charity groups in Houston have helped refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Burma, the Democratic Republic of ...

This post contains details from the Season 3 finale of HBO‘s The White Lotus. It turns out that drinking a pina colada or ...

A landmark review in Nature Reviews Genetics dissects the rare and common genetic variants that shape human height. The paper ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

And beside it, the one-dimensional human looks stunningly narrow. We are slow. We are linear. We think in chains, in loops, ...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and sometimes deadly mosquito-borne illness common in tropical and subtropical ...