Scientists have already learned how to make helmets, batteries, and even sports cars from wood, so applying it to something like thermal paper might not sound that exciting. Yet it could actually ...

The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals ...

Forever chemicals get their name because they resist breaking down, whether in well water or the environment. In the human ...

The health secretary is at odds with his own agency. The director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

Journalist Gabriel Sherman has covered the Murdoch family for nearly two decades. In his new book, Bonfire of the Murdochs, ...

I had missed that voice more than I knew. Being able to hear him again — young him, even if he wasn't talking to me, or talking about anything I much cared about, felt to me, as it had to Lionel in ...

Ray O'Donovan, a proud native of Clonakilty in West Cork, and Liam O hOistin, equally proud of his home roots in the ...

Gerber recalled the Arrowroot Biscuits after its flour supplier recalled the flour saying it may be contaminated with foreign ...

Kid, meaning a young goat, is a word that was borrowed from the Vikings around the 9th century. Centuries later, it came to ...

For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges and microorganisms use another compound silica. There is also a group of ...