The Environmental Protection Agency established rules limiting mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in an effort to improve air quality and public health. The Trump administration just ...

For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs warning about eating the fish they ...

Not all mosquitoes are to blame, however. Every bloodsucking malaria vector comes from those within the group Anopheles leucosphyrus, which encompasses a comparatively small portion of the planet’s ...

Lawyers say China’s government intervened and helped get charges dropped against three Chinese scientists at the University ...

A CT scan of her lungs showed opaque areas where the tissue had thickened, likely due to inflammation or an infection that ...

Leanne Fan built a device to experiment with ways to help astronauts’ wounds heal faster. ‘NASA’s version is around $50,000,’ she says.

Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, identified one thing the bugs seem to fear ...

Here’s a comforting thought: you might not actually be alone in your own body right now. Parasites are far more common than most people realize, and they don’t care about your personal boundaries, ...

Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young children. It is tied to lower IQ and results in decreased earning potential, ...

Environmental experts are warning that the invasive Mauritius thorn plants are threatening rivers and wetlands across Kenya, compounding climate-related pressures and endangering local communities.

Worms are easy to underestimate because most of them look defenseless, slow, and simple. But across the natural world, “worm” isn’t one group - it’s a body shape that shows up in many different ...