A researcher’s experience as a patient motivated him to find cures. He focused on cancers caused by the human papillomavirus.  

NASA's rovers are labs on wheels, doing work on Mars, while being directed by scientists and engineers here on earth. How do they repair rovers from millions of miles away?

If or when humans get to the red planet, one of the next big questions is: What will they eat there? Would it even be possible to have a healthy or tasty diet?

Jumping at the slightest little thing can be annoying and embarrassing. Why do some people startle so easily, and can they do anything about it?

People can reframe their relationship with uncertainty and that can help relieve some of their anxiety.

Everyday social stressors at the office quietly sapped these workers pre-pandemic — creating anxiety they didn’t realize they had.

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?