Science and Health

Professor Offers Students Higher Grade for More Sleep

Want to Buy Ethical Food? Scan with Your Phone for Fast Facts

Study: Human Diet Causing ‘Catastrophic’ Damage to Planet

The Best Rx for Teens Addicted to Vaping? No One Knows

Firefly Aerospace Is Behind Florida Rocket Project: Sources

Use of Expired Vaccine Sparks Public Scare in China

Scientists Tune In to Trees to Monitor Planet’s Health

Study Links Social Media Addicts, Substance Abusers

Desperate Parents and Discount Marijuana: DC in a Shutdown

Plugged in Hives Providing Information on Bee Health

Study: Antarctica Ice Loss Increases Six Fold since 1979

Bees With Circuit Board Backpacks Inform Researchers

Breakthrough In Treating Ebola

Robot Animals Serving as Pets to Dementia Patients

Breakthrough Made in Treating Ebola Virus

British Clinical Trial Begins on Breathalyzer’s Ability to Detect Cancer

Researcher: Calf Born to Endangered Pacific Northwest Orcas

Judge: Women Would Lose Birth Control Coverage Under Trump Rules

Up to 84,000 Americans Hospitalized With Flu in Past 3 months: CDC

Victoria Graham Uses Beauty Queen Title to Spotlight Genetic Disorder

Smartphones Use Apps as Depression Detectives

Scientists: Ocean Temperatures Rising Faster Than Previously Thought

Healthy Baby Born to DRC Mom who Recovered from Ebola

Repeating Radio Waves From Deep Space Intrigue Scientists

Price Tag Proposed in US for Tailpipe CO2 Emissions

Bangkok Fights Floods with Thirsty Landscaping

Zimbabwe Church, Health Ministry Launch Anti-Drug Campaign

Zimbabweans Team Up to Fight Youth Substance Abuse

How Forgotten Local Plants Could Ease Malnutrition in East Timor

Asteroid-circling Spacecraft Grabs Cool Snapshot of Home

Malawi Campaigners Seek to End Sex in Girls’ Initiation Ceremony

WHO Study Likens Palm Oil Lobbying to Tobacco, Alcohol Industries

US Carbon Emissions Spike in 2018

Burundian Entrepreneur Develops Line of Cosmetics to Prevent Malaria

Chinese Scientist Criticized for Risking ‘Gene-edited’ Babies’ Lives

Iguanas Reintroduced to Santiago Island in Galapagos

Outlandish Claims at Indian Scientific Gathering Spark Outcry

Mobile DNA Analysis Device Helps Farmers Fight Crop Diseases

Researchers Offer Alternative to Knee Replacement

Huge Trash-Collecting Boom in Pacific Ocean Breaks Apart

Saving Water, Growing Food in the Saudi Desert

Swedish Patient Tests Negative for Ebola

Ebola Operations Resume in DRC’s North Kivu Province

Swedish Hospital Isolates Patient Amid Ebola Suspicion

Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon

Interesting Advances: Plastics That Become Fuel, and Cars That Clean the Air

After Historic Flyby, New Horizons Probe Treks Deeper on Hunt for Moons

Sign-ups Steady as US Health Law Case Goes to Appeals Court

Flying Drones Deployed Against Nests of Asian Hornets

2019 Promises to Be Big Year in Space

NASA: Icy Object Past Pluto Looks Like Reddish Snowman

Women Strive to End Genital Mutilation in Kurdish Iraq

In Yemen, World’s Worst Cholera Outbreak Traced to Eastern Africa

Spacecraft Opens New Year with Flyby on Solar System’s Edge

Electric Vehicles Poised for Global Growth

Artificial Intelligence Helps Sniff Out Suspected Secret Nuclear Weapons Programs

Low Carb? Low Fat? What Latest Dieting Studies Tell Us

Extreme Weather Becoming the New Normal

NASA Makes Space History With Distant Fly-By

NASA Set to Make Space History Early in New Year