The agency will encourage new clinical trials on Covid-19 vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults.

Around 13 percent of American adults regularly take an antidepressant, according to 2020 data, the most common of which are ...

Amid restructuring, the agency is likely to gut its research program for evaluating the health risks of toxic chemicals.

Recent years have seen a 12 percent decline in new HIV infections. Cuts to federal funding could upend that progress.

Trump’s executive orders are affecting how federally funded journals operate. Some researchers have raised alarms.

A forest fire may happen to a tree, but the reverse can also be true: A tree happens to a fire. A scientist would say that the Ponderosa pine, for instance, has adapted to fire: In other words, it has ...

On the outskirts of the northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth.

In many Western societies, parents eagerly await their children’s first words, then celebrate their arrival. There’s also a vast scientific and popular attention to early child language. Yet there is ...

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