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A new analysis also found wide disparities in age and race, with Black and young people receiving treatments at far lower rates than white and middle-aged people.

Genetic testing that reveals potential cancer risks or other maladies with no regulatory oversight is among the targets of the agency’s proposed review.

Eight of the 11 authors are asking to retract a paper on a room-temperature superconductor, but Ranga Dias, the physicist who led the research, continued to defend the findings.

Held in a small, mountainous village, this festival has it all: snakes, charmers, religion, science. See for yourself — and try not to squirm.

A malaria-carrying species that thrives in urban areas and resists all insecticides is causing outbreaks in places that have rarely faced the disease.

Climate change and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.

Working on a remote island, scientists think they can use genetic engineering to block a malaria-carrying species of mosquito from spreading the disease — and do it in just a few months. But governments are wary.

A different way of thinking about mosquito-borne diseases could save billions of dollars, and end them for good, some health experts believe.

Researchers completed a complex simulation that supports the idea that the giant planet’s jewelry emerged hundreds of millions of years ago, not billions.

The Nobel Prizes will be announced beginning Monday.

Called the father of India’s Green Revolution, he served on agencies and boards around the world and developed a system of ecologically safe food production.

The trip to space was only supposed to last six months for Frank Rubio, but technical difficulties kept his crew in orbit for over a year.

The trip to space was only supposed to last six months for Frank Rubio, but technical difficulties kept his crew in orbit for over a year.

Applicants have challenged the Peace Corps practice of rescinding invitations to applicants on the basis of mental health conditions.

He drew a distinction between the facts we learn and the experiences we remember, which he argued are part of what makes us human.

Now that the U.S. government has stepped back from issuing vaccines, long-term care operators have yet to start administering shots to protect one of the most vulnerable populations.

Consider it good news, physicists say: “The opposite result would have had big implications.”

Elephants rely on visual cues to maintain consistent timing of their strides, a new study suggests.

Researchers say that “fairy circles,” which had mostly been studied in Namibia and Australia, may exist in 15 countries.

The Ocucaje Desert, where paleontologists recently unearthed the ancient skeleton of the world’s heaviest animal, is being overtaken by human settlement.