By Siobhan Roberts In 2018 an international team of scientists — from labs in Houston; Copenhagen, Denmark; Barcelona, Spain; and beyond...

By Noah Weiland On a recent Friday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as triple-digit temperatures stretched into the evening, a 69-year-old man...

By Raymond Zhong One of North America’s largest areas of interconnected glaciers is melting twice as quickly as it did before 2010, a team of scientists said last week, in what they called an “incredibly worrying” sign that land ice in many places could disappear even sooner than previously thought. The Juneau Ice Field, which sprawls across the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, lost 1.4 cubic miles of ice a year between 2010 and 2020, the researchers estimated.

By Alice Callahan In 1970, two Danish researchers traveled to Greenland to investigate a nutritional paradox: The Inuit people living in...

By Erik Vance The sun is out, the days are long and it feels like everyone is outside exercising. Building a fitness habit requires...

By Katrina Miller China brought a capsule full of lunar soil from the far side of the moon down to Earth, achieving the latest success in an ambitious schedule to explore the moon and other parts of the solar system. The sample, retrieved last week by the China National Space Administration’s Chang’e-6 lander after a 53-day mission, highlights China’s growing capabilities in space and notches another win in a series of lunar missions that started in 2007 and have so far been

By Caroline Hopkins Ripe, creamy avocados are great on toast, salads and burgers, or just sprinkled with salt. Plus, they’re healthy —...

By Talya Minsberg Doctors and physical therapists have long incorporated aerobic exercise into treatment programs for lower-back pain....

By Pam Belluck One of the nation’s premier medical advisory organizations has weighed in on long COVID with a 265-page report that...

By Rachel Nuwer Hurricane Maria caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean, not only for people but also for wildlife. Five years after the storm, some of the effects still linger. Cayo Santiago, a small island off the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico, is a prime example. It transformed almost overnight from a lush jungle oasis to a desertlike spit of sand with mostly skeletal trees. This posed a big problem for the island’s resident macaques. The monkeys depend on shade