Why NASA is creating — and then sniffing out — some of the foulest smells known in the universe.

Cultural preferences play a huge role in determining what and who smells good to some and bad to others. Factors other than fragrance are involved.

Trikafta costs $360,000 a year per cystic fibrosis patient, a big price the government has hesitated to approve.

Births are a high-risk, low-return part of the health business. The city’s hospitals rallied together a decade ago. Is a new challenge ahead?

That diagnostic gut feeling? It’s not magic. It’s based on data drawn from the senses and experience that can be quantified.

For decades, slavery created challenges for Black Americans trying to trace their roots. DNA ancestry tests might reveal new answers.

American Indians have the highest smoking rates in the country: US commercialization of tobacco continues to complicate sacred use of the plant.

What happens when an outsider develops a stop strange smoking method that works, but can’t be explained by science.

How close are scientists to developing fusion energy? And what are the roadblocks standing in the way?

Years of research powered electric car batteries, yet questions remain to be answered.

Officials said a July 'second wave' had hit Philly with scant evidence, later admitting they'd called “a slight rise in cases" a wave to help avoid "uncontrollable spread."

Emily Smith, an epidemiologist married to a preacher, has been able to reach evangelicals in a way others can’t, by meeting them where they are.

For years, sufferers of EHS have maintained that the electromagnetic fields around us are dangerous. A handful of scientists agree.

Frank W. Abagnale Jr. is famous for cons documented in the blockbuster “Catch Me If You Can.” But science writer Alan Logan says the real grift is Abagnale’s entire story.

A large proportion of incarcerated people have their chronic conditions diagnosed while in prison. But experts say quality care can be hard to get.