The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending routine vaccinations against 11 diseases, down from 17 at ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Global health body says it is sifting the wheat from the chaff in order to save lives – but critics fear it is pandering to ...

With the release of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030, it is important to reaffirm the need for rigorous, transparent and evidence-based science in shaping public health and nutrition ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

Medical experts and law enforcement officials are questioning the science behind shaken baby syndrome convictions, leading to ...

Neanderthals were the world's first innovators of fire technology, tiny specks of evidence in England suggest. Flecks of pyrite found at a more than 400,000-year-old archaeological site in Suffolk, in ...