Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

Proposed cuts for prescribed burning could rekindle a debate over fire’s historical role in managing some forests.

In the intervening years, he tried numerous forms of therapy, medication, brain stimulation, and residential treatments — all ...

Officials asked agency staff to draft a rule that would limit data collection. The move could set a global precedent.

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Apps that track health information or help provide care may have benefits, but experts say a lack of regulation is concerning ...

A plan to announce the agency's new risk assessment stressed the need for MMR vaccinations. Last week, it was scrapped.

The closely-spaced deaths of two cougars in Washington state suggest the virus is likely more widespread than thought.

Timothy Stryker was making his second visit to Svalbard, a Norwegian island chain nudged up against the North Pole, but the yield signs still caught his attention: They directed drivers to defer not ...

In the summer of 2022, Abdel Abdellaoui was set to give a keynote at the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research. But when he learned he’d be sharing a speaker roster ...

Amanda Todd was 15 years old when, in September 2012, she uploaded a nearly nine-minute video to YouTube that detailed years of cyberbullying, harassment, and extortion. The abuse left her traumatized ...