How the AI industry uses water and how that impacts an increasingly parched world is more complicated than people think.

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

From rocket launch to reentry, satellites are adding CO2 and other pollutants to every layer of Earth's atmosphere.

Growing up in Teaneck, New Jersey, with a brother who had severe intellectual disabilities, Linda Birnbaum developed an interest in the human brain. She was a formidable child: In 1961, as a teenager, ...

Other right-wing media personalities have echoed similar themes about how environmental chemicals might affect a person’s gender and sexuality. Alex Jones, the shock-jock radio host and conspiracy ...

Mark Turner has worked in pediatrics for more than 30 years, and he’s tired of telling parents there’s nothing he can do for their children. Very few medicines are developed with young people in mind, ...

For years, Ron Low took pride in his ability to give his wife multiple orgasms in a single sexual encounter. This was possible, in part, because his erections lasted up to an hour. By the age of 38, ...

The country’s highest-achieving scientists have been leaving the Environmental Protection Agency in droves for the private sector. It’s exactly what President Donald Trump’s administration said it was ...

Cow D lived on a dairy farm in New Zealand. The animal looked like the typical black-and-white cow farmers raise for milk, except for one thing: Researchers had outfitted Cow D with an artificial ...

Federal law requires agencies to review the environmental impacts of grazing, but the system is riddled with loopholes.