The Trump administration is closing in on its pick to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the nation’s top public health agency grapples with ...

Abnormal heat on the last day of winter continues to set records in the U.S. Southwest. The Arizona desert community of Martinez Lake hit 110 degrees F on Thursday.

The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are well known: soreness, mild fever and general malaise.

Rising summer heat has prompted Pune civic authorities to ask private hospitals to report severe heatstroke cases as the ...

Most of us walk around every day thinking we know exactly how our own skin and bones operate, but the reality is that the human body is a collection of high-tech systems that would make a sci-fi ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new framework for scientists detecting and measuring microplastics in the human ...

We like to think of ourselves as hardy Wisconsinites, capable of braving the bitter cold to enjoy life during the winter. But over the next few days, when forecasts predict wind chills as low as minus ...

Jenni Shearston has received funding from the National Institutes of Health. I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early ...

A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our guilt over plastic particles being found in even the most remote regions on Earth turned ...