Some analysts think the markets could out-compete polls in newsrooms and more, but the approaches are vastly different.

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

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Homesick for a World Unknown,” by Miriam Horn, is an intimate portrait of renowned wildlife biologist George Schaller.

In “The Return of the Oystercatcher,” Scott Weidensaul examines bird conservation successes as some populations rebound.

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

Bush signed into law an outpatient pharmacy benefit, called Part D, in 2003 that the program included prescription drug coverage. Medicare’s outpatient drug benefit includes what are called the ...

In 2000, three researchers published a peer-reviewed paper concluding that, “under present and expected conditions of use,” Roundup, a formulation of the ...

Randy Hatton ran the hotline. His students fielded dozens of drug-related questions from pharmacists, physicians, and even the occasional vet. When the phones rang, Hatton and his team never knew what ...

Ben Hine was 4 years old when his parents split. In his recollection, he remembers that his dad left for work one day and his uncle arrived in a van to pick up Ben and his mother, along with the ...

One summer day in 2020, forestry professor Suzanne Simard ventured into an arid forest in British Columbia to check on an experimental forest she’d planted as part of a research project. In a caravan ...

Sea levels are much higher than we thought. Real-world oceans are making a mockery of flood-risk forecasts based on crude global modeling. And to make matters worse, coastal lands almost everywhere ...