Advocates and transgender people are worried the directive will discourage medical care they consider to be lifesaving.

As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown quickly and in huge quantities. Onyeaka wondered ...

I ndia extracts more groundwater than any other country worldwide, even more than the U.S. and China combined. In 2024, the ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

P resident Donald Trump’s early actions on health care signal his likely intention to wipe away some Biden-era programs to ...

Stefan Kertesz, a physician and addiction expert, says overaggressive cutbacks can harm some chronic pain patients.

What’s the best way to discuss vaccines with a politically polarized public? Jeffrey Morris has been considering this question since the Covid-19 pandemic, when he created a dedicated blog and ramped ...

Around a decade ago, a patient in the Netherlands went to his doctor with a request for euthanasia. He was in his 40s, suffering from depression and psychosis, and haunted by feelings of despair, ...