Health & Science

When you are young, the science bug might bite you at any time. For a young boy named Sonny Viscelli, it happened during a visit to the T ...

In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...

A biologist says her research on dolphin sex is worth public investment. A whole bunch of dolphin clitorises are laid out on a tab ...

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

The Blanco reflector telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile has detected a ‘distant dwarf’ planet observers are calling “De ...

Guests: Emily Dreyfuss, Mary Anne Franks Facebook Live is intended to provide a way to send video of your life and exper ...

Science takes center stage Saturday, April 22 in marches planned across the country. Philadelphia will host its own local science march f ...

Guests: James Hansen, Robert Young Scientists, researchers, and lobbyists are planning a March for Science on Apr ...

What should fuel America? Wind? Sun? Cow dung? We’re having a power struggle over that – it’s political, but it’s ...

Guests: Angus Deaton, Anne Case, David Folkenflik For most western countries, mortality rates have been in declin ...

Ever since Pluto was demoted from the pantheon of planets, efforts have intensified to designate a replacemen ...

Are you avoiding looking at yourself in a mirror? No longer comfortable going to the pool – or maybe pl ...

The ill-conceived replacements for Obamacare would have left some 14 million Americans without health insurance and have an unh ...