Our system of financing drug research gave the makers of OxyContin a multibillion-dollar incentive to ignore the risks their drug posed.

Critics have bashed linguist Noam Chomsky for more than 50 years, but his claim that language is innate endures

Astrophysics suggests we will be alone in the universe for eons.

Cosmologists think they understand the Big Bang, but too much lithium could prove them wrong.

3D image provides best view yet of how all our chromosomes are packed tight

A much-touted study recommended therapy and exercise for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Problem is, it was based on bad science.

“A tree can be only as strong as the forest that surrounds it.”

Women are twice as likely to experience depression as men. Now, a study suggests that for women using birth control, risk of depression could be higher.

In this video we have tried to show movement and the enormous chromatic beauty of corals, a kind of marine animals that despite being one of the oldest animals on our planet, are mostly unknown

A modest developmental biology paper prompts breathless claims of egg-free embryos

August 3, 2016 - July marked one year since the beginning of the siege of the town of Madaya in southern Syria. The town's 40,000 residents have been surrounded by landmines, checkpoints, and snipers, and forced to survive on meager supplies. Ha ...

Summary: According to researchers, children as young as 9 months prefer to play with toys specific to their gender.

New research investigates why paternal mitochondria perish in embryos.

And grasp the laws of physics

Last week, while the bombing of Aleppo intensified, three brothers went out to play. They ended up at the Al Quds hospital, where a volunteer was filming the doctors at work. What she captured is a rare and intimate glimpse of what thousands of fam ...

Dr Vickie Hawkins, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, says an air strike on a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, is

The top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings.

We discuss three candidate scenarios which seem to allow the possibility that the universe could have existed forever with no initial singularity: eternal infation, cyclic evolution, and the emergent universe. The first two of these scenarios are geo ...

An urgent call to the world

Controlled by ISIL and besieged by government forces, residents struggle to survive amid shortage of food supplies.