The Opinion columnist M. Gessen examines how the president governs through spectacle, and the message his displays of force ...

A consortium of Brazilian research centers has gathered data on 843 children born from 2015 to 2018 with Zika-related ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

It's not a fresh start, but institutionalized amnesia, in which minority groups lose their protections and violence waits in the wings ...

The US has unveiled sweeping new dietary guidelines that prioritise protein, full-fat dairy, and healthy fats while sharply reducing the role of grains and added sugar. The return of a flipped food py ...

All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...

Author Matt Greene on his new dystopian novel 'The Definitions' about life after a virus wipes people's memories.

At least 14 states and Washington, DC, are reporting high or very high flu activity. The dominant flu strain, a version of influenza A (H3N2) called subclade K, has multiple mutations that make it ...