Brooke Borel: So Tom originally came to me with this idea for this podcast to dig into scientific controversies in a ...

More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak ...

Recent studies implicate the immune system and a herpes virus as potential contributors to development of the disease.

The CDC is piloting a disease forecasting service called Insight Net. Could it be a game-changer for public health?

Workers are pushing to improve training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution, and equipment failure.

The project was so secret, most members of Congress didn’t even know it existed. In 1942, when an elite team of physicists set out to produce an atomic bomb, military leaders took elaborate steps to ...

In August, 1945, American pilots dropped newly engineered atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, evaporating tens of thousands of people in an instant, and killing many tens of thousands more in the ...

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Biostatistician Jeffrey Morris says effective dialogue requires an awareness of how politics shape a person's beliefs.

The opossum might not have a concept of death, but we can be pretty sure that at least some of those animals who intended to ...