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Nebraska is facing more than one billion dollars in damage due to historic and devastating flooding this past week. The storm that set things into motion…

Air pollution triggers the premature death of more than 100,000 people each year — around the population of Cambridge, Massachusetts. That’s according to…

So, it happened. And you probably didn’t notice. But the long-awaited, new definition of the kilogram went into effect this past week.The metal cylinder…

If you've ever had a urinary tract infection, somebody has probably told you to drink cranberry juice. The idea that cranberries have infection-fighting…

"The plaque is like the match, the tangles, like the brushfires that spread. You can live with it. But once there's neuroinflammation, that's the forest…

By Neta C. Crawford, Boston UniversityRepublished from TheConversation.comScientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global…

Alexander Strang, Case Western Reserve University and Peter Thomas, Case Western Reserve UniversityWith 24 declared candidates for the Democratic Party’s…

Dark matter is thought to make up a little over a quarter of the universe. That’s six times more than all the matter ever observed. And, yet, dark matter…

Last November, the New York Times magazine made an ominous declaration: The Insect Apocalypse is Here. The story warned that insects, globally, could face…

CRISPR gene editing. It's gone from an obscure biotech term to a household name in the past few years, in no small part due to a scientist who last year…