Society & Policy

The influence of the “microbiome” on our health has become a hot topic in recent years but privacy issues are now being raised

A fire at a Philippine rubber slipper factory killed 31 workers on Wednesday and dozens were missing and feared dead

An Amtrak passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board derailed in north Philadelphia on Tuesday night

Landslides pose an ongoing menace that will only increase when seasonal monsoon rains begin to fall in the coming weeks.

A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research blames 40 percent of the rise in obesity on the ubiquity of supercenters, warehouse clubs and restaurants. Gretchen Cuda Kroen reports 

The solutions are simple but not easy to adopt, as the Nepal example shows

Reducing “silly” spending threatens to undermine research on the planet, climate change, other scientific issues

By Ross Adkin and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, May 12 (Reuters) - A fresh 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday, killing more than two dozen people in the Himalayan country and neighbouring states, as many buildings already weakened by a much bigger quake last month were brought down.

Rhode Island could prove to be the first state to allow for offshore wind

A study of anti-Roma bias in Hungary seeks to identify the roots of subliminal bias

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, gave his view of the next couple of decades in the evolution of TV-watching at the re:publica 15 digital culture conference in Berlin on May 5