Health & Science

Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...

In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...

Explaining in a 2014 article in The A ...

It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...

A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.

This Friday’s full moon is both the Harvest Moon and a penumbral eclipse. Penumbral means that the moon passes through the outer sh ...

Teens are known for their one-word answers, and for being moody – but underneath their often grumpy exterior, many of them are very ...

What do our emerging adults need from us? What is it like to be a teen in today’s world with working parents, blended families, emp ...

Across the country, parents have gotten in trouble with the law for letting their children walk home from a park or from school by themse ...

I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...

It turns out those lazy dog days of summer aren’t so lazy after all! Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss the rotations and re ...

Atlantic science writer Ed Yong can’t look at an eleph ...

This week: Scientists have discovered another solar system member. Niku, a chunk of ice 124 miles in diameter, has been discovered out b ...

Diagnosing poison ivy is easy. Getting my insurance company to pay for the generic steroid cream to cure it? Not so much. Getting ...

At a stylish shop in Brooklyn, a different kind of ‘sommelier’ guides tastings from a row of small bottles lined up on the co ...