Science

The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic in favor of a more distributed and comprehensive network of medical care...

The heat that demolished records in Britain last week, bringing temperatures as high as 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit to a country unaccustomed to scorching summers, would have been “extremely unlikely” without the influence...

In many ways, humans are weird mammals. And our relationship with milk is especially weird.In every mammalian species, females produce milk to feed their young. The nursing babies digest the milk with...

Move over birds and bees, there is another pollinator on planet Earth, and it lives in the sea.In a study, published Thursday in the journal Science, scientists found that a tiny crustacean,...

The climate and tax deal announced by Senate Democrats on Wednesday would pump hundreds of billions of dollars into programs designed to speed the country’s transition away from an economy based largely...

The coronavirus pandemic walloped rural America last year, precipitating a surge of deaths among white residents as the virus inflamed longstanding health deficits there.But across the small towns and farmlands, new research...

James Lovelock, the maverick British ecologist whose work was essential to today’s understanding of man-made pollutants and their effect on climate and who captured the scientific world’s imagination with his Gaia theory,...

A Food and Drug Administration official with considerable power over authorization decisions for e-cigarettes and products aimed at curbing smoking resigned on Tuesday to work for Philip Morris International, the global tobacco...

The first helicopter that NASA sent to Mars worked so well that it is sending two more.The helicopters are similar to Ingenuity, the “Marscopter” that accompanied NASA’s Perseverance rover to Mars. But...

It’s big. It’s bad. It will take off your head, eat your family and destroy your home. If you are a honeybee, that is.Since it was found in the Pacific Northwest in...