In kids and adolescents, exposure to gun violence is vastly understudied. But new research uncovers the ripple effects.

Light pollution is threatening the future of astronomy. Can a new nationwide lighting standard make a difference?

Propelled by the draining of local aquifers, the city's land is sinking. New research surveys the impact on subways.

One startup has said genetically modified microbe could prevent cavities. Experts, though, have safety concerns.

Sounds that are lower pitched are less studied than other types. Some say it’s a health hazard. Others have doubts.

California and Hawaii expand access to a form of care for serious illness that saves money and improves outcomes.

A band played as the Pewabic eased away from the docks at Houghton, Michigan on Aug. 8, 1865. Ladies in fine silk dresses and men in black top hats waved from the upper deck to a crowd onshore wishing ...

In March, the sons of Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian writer, published a posthumous novel against the specific wishes their father expressed before he died in 2014 at the ...

Residents of La Oroya, Peru, known as one of the most polluted cities on Earth, have won a landmark victory from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which ruled last month that Peru was ...