By Alan Yuhas Archaeologists in Peru have excavated a monumental chamber featuring elaborate murals of snakes, and a pillared hall with a worn throne, which they say bears clues suggesting a powerful woman ruled there more than 1,300 years ago. The site, Pañamarca, was a religious and political center for the ancient Moche culture, which flourished for centuries in northern Peru, building grand structures and irrigating deserts long before the Inca rose and conquered the Ande

By Nina Agrawal More than 1 in 3 adults in the United States has prediabetes, higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that can lead to...

By Emily Schmall As Hurricane Milton battered Florida’s Gulf Coast this month, Chloe Ottani followed the news with horror from her...

By Dana G. Smith Over the past several years, there has been a rise in alcohol-related deaths and a steady wave of news about the health...

By Derrick Bryson Taylor John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries that helped computers learn more in the way the human brain does, providing the building blocks for developments in artificial intelligence. The award is an acknowledgment of AI’s growing significance in the way people live and work. With its ability to quickly make sense of vast amounts of data, machine learning that uses artificial neural networks

By Becky Ferreira At sunset on a late summer weekend in 1924, crowds flocked to curbside telescopes to behold the advanced alien civilization they believed to be present on the surface of Mars. “See the wonders of Mars!” an uptown sidewalk astronomer shouted in New York City on Saturday, Aug. 23. “Now is your chance to view the snowcaps and the great canals that are causing so much talk among the scientists. You’ll never have such a chance again in your lifetime.” That weeken

By Amanda Loudin When it comes to exercise, muscles and bones are clearly the stars of the show. But to feel your best and age well, you...

By Apoorva Mandavilli A possible cluster of bird flu infections in Missouri has grown to include eight people, in what may be the first...

By Franz Lidz The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million years ago, and by 1662, because of humans, it had vanished from Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the only place it ever existed. The dodo has since become fixed in society’s imagination as the very emblem of ineptitude, an evolutionary clown — an impression

By Emily Baumgaertner “Make America healthy again!” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looked out into the crowd in Glendale, Arizona, earlier this...