Research is identifying alternative methods to the polygraph, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

Low-quality, mass-produced video content is alarming child development experts. Few guardrails are in place to stop it.

Industrial-grade buoys are being installed to prevent unauthorized crossings, but the environmental impact is unknown.

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

In 1775, Washington deployed colonial soldiers who had survived smallpox to retake Boston during a city-wide epidemic.

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the center routinely perform forensic firearms identification, meaning ...

Clinical trials for a new drug can take years to complete, and cost up to hundreds of millions of dollars. New draft guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration aims to make that process ...

Agencies will have to show a “direct causal link” to “manifest bodily harm,” not just an increased risk of disease.

On the desk of Jesse Keller’s office sits a big red bag about the size of a full sack of groceries, marked “biohazard.” It’s packed with prescription pill bottles filled with fibers, and his desk ...