The board that accredits medical schools is poised to take away requirements that doctors learn about factors, such as income, neighborhood, and culture, that can affect medical treatment approaches. These requirements are necessary to ensure the highest quality of care.

AI could soon use more water than we need to drink, UN report finds.

Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist on three factors that make a paranormal experience more likely

Tests that measure biological aging are informative tools for studying large numbers of people but not for tracking individual health status.

If your phone breaks, it's impossible to fix it yourself. The reason for that lies with a set of laws that emerged decades ago.

Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.

Techniques for analyzing DNA have advanced, enabling scientists to better understand disease outbreaks throughout history.

In the book "The Echoing Universe: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos," astrophysicist Emma Chapman describes the hidden corners of space that only radio waves can reveal — and makes the case for contacting aliens.

Last week, a common hormonal condition that impacts millions of people got a new name. Tell us what you think about the change.