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The first gene therapy for a deadly form of muscular dystrophy received preliminary U.S. approval on Thursday despite concerns from some government scientists about the treatment’s ability to help boys with the inherited disease.

A new study that analyzes data from more than 50,000 amateur stargazers finds that artificial lighting is making the night sky about 10% brighter each year.

Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found.

In Virginia’s Elizabeth River, the unremarkable-looking mummichog has survived decades of industrial pollution—but the price it has paid has worrying implications for human health.

With demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpacing the world’s supplies, a frustrated public and policymakers want to know: How can we get more? A lot more. Right away.

The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” the world’s top bug experts said.

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy.

Every year, as many as 400 million people are infected with life-threatening diseases by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. It wasn’t always so dangerous.

Across the U.S. and in Europe, researchers and health officials say they can track the course of a community outbreak of the new coronavirus by studying the waste flushed from its bathrooms. And that can provide a valuable addition to public health tools, they say.

For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely.

Masks and social distancing can help control the coronavirus but hand washing and other measures are still needed, a new analysis finds.

Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.