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Aging Women’s Brain Mysteries Are Tested in Trio of Studies

Women’s brains are superior to men’s in at least in one respect — they age more slowly. And now, a group of researchers...

Florida Seeks Drug Prescription Data With Names of Patients and Doctors

Florida’s insurance regulator has demanded an unusually intrusive trove of data on millions of prescription drugs filled in the state last year, including...

Trove of Ancient Axes Shows Early Humans Made Tools From Bones

Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.Six million years ago, our apelike ancestors probably smashed nuts with rocks or...

150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate

For 30 miles we bounce along a dirt road in southwestern Wyoming, heading toward a jagged skyline. It’s early September and the aspens...

Some Green Groups Are Running Out of Cash After Trump Freezes $20 Billion

Two weeks after their bank accounts were frozen amid a swirl of investigations by the Trump administration, nonprofit organizations that were supposed to...

Measles Outbreak Continues to Spread in West Texas

A measles outbreak that has spread over a swath of West Texas, killing one child, shows no signs of slowing, according to data...

Wild Coast Raw Food for Cats Is Recalled Over Bird Flu Risk

A company in Washington State voluntarily recalled a raw food product for cats this week because of the potential risk that it may...

World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground

After months of drifting, the world’s largest iceberg has come to a halt near the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic...

He Fought Claims of Harm From Infant Formula. Now He Regulates It.

The new head of the Food and Drug Administration division that regulates infant formula was in recent months a corporate lawyer defending a...

SpaceX Prepares for 8th Starship Rocket Test Flight: How to Watch

Starship — the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars — is preparing for its eighth test flight.This...

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