Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

Brooke Scelza is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s department of anthropology. She is co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, where she studies ...

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and ...

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Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have both been drenched by torrential rains ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...

Ultimately, as to the mystery of how the brain separates music from speech in the auditory pathway, we suspect there is more ...