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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Some of the more than a dozen states that cover the high cost of GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound through ...

Despite the two decades since his death, John Paul still has a great deal to teach us about human dignity, God’s boundless ...

As American men decline in every metric measuring well-being, men are desperately seeking answers from all the wrong people.

Reporters and human rights groups say the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for Global Media have ...

Stanley “Goose” Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, ...

The problems for Head Start began days after President Donald Trump took office. Trump’s administration announced it would ...

Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.

The planet is drowning in plastic, with dire impacts on wildlife, ecosystems, and human health. Could a landmark global ...