On a recent journey into the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, Ramón Pucha realized he was being trailed. Fresh puma tracks now lined ...

The 34-year-old says that although football has made progress in becoming more inclusive, the men's game in Scotland still has a long way to go to catch up with the women's in terms of LGBT visibility ...

Sometimes we humans get ahead of ourselves. We embark on grand engineering experiments without really understanding what the ...

Study of century-old hair documents how regulations cut lead exposure 100-fold since 1970. The findings arrive as protections ...

A recent study published in Science challenged this trend, revising the estimate upward to about 50% by accounting for ...

A century of hair samples shows how environmental rules helped slash Americans’ lead exposure by up to 100 times.

The headline figure of lifespan being around “50% heritable” risks being misunderstood as meaning genes determine half of a ...

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the central role in atmospheric carbon swings and long-term ...

These changes, which take effect this year, are designed to provide tax relief across a broad range of categories, from working Americans and seniors to business investment and family support. Notices ...

New research suggests specific, small lifestyle changes may make a big impact on lifespan and healthspan. Even just a few minutes of activity and adding a half serving of vegetables to your plate may ...