To improve outcomes for female patients, all evidence needs to be considered—while outdated myths about the significance of sex differences need to be retired.

Upside Foods is slashing staff, citing legislative, regulatory, and funding headwinds.

The people of Phoenix will suffer under extreme heat this summer. The city has workers for that.

For many patients, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy lead to substantial weight loss. But some see much less benefit, and researchers are trying to figure out why.

Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems, establishing a new foundation for what is needed to keep information secure.

As more and more infrastructure is deployed in space, the risk of cyber attacks increases. The US military wants to team up with the private sector to protect assets everyone relies on.

Climate change is making hail storms more intense, so designers have to find novel solutions to protect panels from expensive damage.

This supergiant star is in our celestial neighborhood, and it’s threatening to go supernova. What would that look like from down here?

Collins Aerospace is expected to back out of a contract with NASA, while high interest rates and a difficult supply chain environment have affected Axiom.

There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets.

Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong.

Toxic air kills over half a million children every year, yet only once has air pollution been listed as a cause of death on a death certificate.

If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figure out the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions of extraterrestrial waste management.

Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a “nutritional value” to society—and that the public desperately deserve a better offering.

It’s a question of when, not if, highly effective treatments become available, says the CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK. But that doesn’t solve the problem of one-third of dementia patients still going undiagnosed.

The aftermath of a disaster like Covid can be divided into roughly three stages: the honeymoon, the slump, and the uptick. The aim is always to build back better—but in some cases that never happens.

The space agency has pushed back the spacecraft’s return to an unspecified date in July, to give it more time to look into the problems that beset the vehicle on its journey into orbit.

By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s first moments.

The venom of recluse spiders can be dangerous, but the idea of there being a “season” when these arachnids invade homes and bite is unhelpful and wrong.

An expert in heat-related illnesses outlines the dos and don'ts for when you're exercising or working outside this summer.

Intensifying hurricanes, floods, and heat waves are wreaking havoc across the country—and on all of our bank accounts.

A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes.