As cases mount, industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

Title X funding appears to be shifting away from contraception. Experts say that's unlikely to change fertility rates.

Jennifer Pomeranz discusses a decades-old loophole for putting new ingredients into the country's food supply.

Bush signed into law an outpatient pharmacy benefit, called Part D, in 2003 that the program included prescription drug ...

In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being ...

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book “Empire of AI.” Hao ...

Lithium is one of Earth’s most widespread elements. The metal is found just about everywhere, even in small traces in drinking water. It’s a key element in the batteries that experts say could guide ...

While so many animals’ habitats are shrinking across our human-engineered planet, a few species are actually expanding their ranges — managing to thrive in spite of, or even because of, human activity ...

In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter ...

Stephanie Armour, Christine Mai-Duc, Amy Maxmen, and Arthur Allen contributed to this story. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a busy few months. He fired the director ...

With its expanse of buildings and concrete, Mexico City may not look squishy — but it is. Ever since the Spanish conquistadors drained Lake Texcoco to make way for more urbanization, the land has been ...