The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is ...

WIND GAP, Pa. — Genetic testing for medical purposes is known to be expensive, but a new community health research program is now offering lifesaving answers for free. When 38-year-old Nick Lumi first ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re interested in exploring.

A 4-year-old boy picks out a bandage before getting vaccinated in San Jose, California, in 2022. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center ...

Amid rising consumer concern about microplastics, more than 2,700 people registered for the virtual Great Lakes Microplastics Summit, where researchers emphasized the need for expanded testing in ...

Going on antidepressants can give many people their life back, but for some there is a catch. About 25% to 80% of people who take antidepressants experience sexual side effects to some degree during ...

The transport of Rapa Nui’s (Easter Island) monumental moai statues has been debated for over a century. Based on a systematic analysis of 962 moai, with a focus on 62 road statues, combined with 3D ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the result of a partnership between The Post and Courier and CBS News. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the ...

Madeleine May is an investigative producer at CBS News based in Washington, D.C. She previously covered politics for VICE News and reported on organized crime and corruption for OCCRP. She covers ...

When it comes to flying and testing drones, there is only one place to do it, according to some. “The only way we can see how these drones, or how these flying vehicles, how they operate in the real ...