Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

Mount Spurr, which scientists say is likely to erupt in the coming weeks or months, is about 80 miles west of Anchorage. But ...

Mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles have been striking for nearly six months. In an effort to get their message to break through, some have now started a hunger strike.

A Martinez visit's a slow strength gym and goes toe to toe with a senior citizen weightlifter, to see if this kind of exercise is all it's cracked up to be.

The second installment of our soup-a-thon. Vicky Hallett and Genevieve Villamora, correspondents. Marc Silver, digital editor. Radio interview ran last week. Digital publishing Thursday at 7 a.m.

U.S. News took data from more than 100 schools involving research activity, student selectivity and faculty resources. The ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Hospitals and nursing homes rely on the immigrant workforce to fill many key roles, research finds. Trump's crackdown on ...

NOAA relies on hundreds of contracts to keep the agency running. The new commerce secretary is reviewing many of them ...

Blue Origin plans to launch a space flight with a crew that includes the singer behind the 2010 hit "Firework." But we can think of many other artists who deserve to be among the stars.

The birth of tortoises native to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos increases their U.S. population from 44 to 48. A few ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of ...