Low-quality, mass-produced video content is alarming child development experts. Few guardrails are in place to stop it.

Research is identifying alternative methods to the polygraph, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

Industrial-grade buoys are being installed to prevent unauthorized crossings, but the environmental impact is unknown.

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the center routinely perform forensic firearms identification, meaning ...

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 ...

Moderna’s CEO Stéphane Bancel said in January that the company, known for its Covid-19 vaccine using messenger RNA technology, or mRNA, doesn’t plan to invest in new, late-stage vaccine trials. He ...

Mark Turner has worked in pediatrics for more than 30 years, and he’s tired of telling parents there’s nothing he can do for their children. Very few medicines are developed with young people in mind, ...

Earlier this year, a half-dozen students from City Hill Middle School, in Naugatuck, Connecticut, traveled with their science teacher Katrina Spina to the state capital to testify in support of a bill ...

Kathryn Paige Harden's "Original Sin" explores the genetic roots of sin and guilt, and our attitudes toward punishment.