Movement can be an effective treatment for back pain. (Theodore Tae/The New York Times) By Christine Yu When your lower back hurts, your...

An autistic boy with his mother at home in Texas, Aug. 5, 2023. There is no blood test or brain scan to determine who has autism, and...

Products at Prospect Heights grocery store in Brooklyn, April 11, 2013. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday updated the...

The installation of the stegosaurus fossil nicknamed Apex, known for the plates that line its back, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Dec. 3, 2024. The billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, who bought the stegosaurus fossil for $44.6 million, is loaning it to the museum for four years. (James Estrin/The New York Times) By Zachary Small and Julia Jacobs The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold at auction, a stegosaurus that billionaire Kenneth Griffin bought

In an undated image provided by Tom Björklund, an artist’s interpretation of the LRJ people, who lived across northern Europe about 45,000 years ago. DNA reveals they were closely related to all living non-Africans. (Tom Björklund via The New York Times) By Carl Zimmer About 45,000 years ago, a tiny group of people — fewer than 1,000 — wandered the icy northern fringes of Europe. Across thousands of miles of tundra, they hunted woolly rhinoceros and other big game. Their skin

Kyle Lampe, 37, at home in Norfolk, Mass., Dec. 10, 2024. When Lampe looks back at his school days, he realizes how much his undiagnosed...

In an undated image provided by Eric Carlson/Desert Archaeology, Inc.; Ben Potter/University of Alaska Fairbanks and Jim Chatters/McMaster University, an artist’s impression of early North Americans eating mammoths 12,000 years ago. A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction. (Eric Carlson/Desert Archaeology, Inc.; Ben Potter/University of Alaska Fairbanks and Jim Ch

An estimated 1,200 people have died of mpox, which kills about 2.5% of those it infects in Congo. (ALIMA) By Stephanie Nolen On Sept....

Trying to stay healthy into old age is a better goal than attempting to live as long as possible. (Francesco Ciccolella/The New York...

By Hannah Singleton Sleep and exercise work together like gears in a machine: When one turns smoothly, the other follows suit. Quality...