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A new report from the HHS that is critical of gender-affirming care for minors follows a similar, widely criticized report in ...

Strong evidence suggests that food allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to food allergens—not by exposure to toxins ...

NASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third known interstellar object ...

New research suggests that kissing probably predates humanity and evolved between 16.9 million and 21.5 million years ago, after the ancestor of the great apes split from the lesser apes, or gibbons.

Researchers tracked thousands of Americans for decades, finding no links between ingesting recommended levels of fluoride and ...

Although the findings are yet to be confirmed, it marks the closest astronomers have come to locating these ancient stars ...

In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered ...

E-mails between Larry Summers and the now deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2018 and 2019 have raised ...

A tiny, misplaced label may have slowly loosened a critical wire on the ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, ...

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...

Melatonin supplements have become a ubiquitous sleep aid, but research shows that benefits are modest, and the heart health ...