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Archaeologists studying one of the birthplaces of agriculture find a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics.

For a long time, no one knew how “heavy metals” formed—or showed up on Earth. Now some new evidence finally points the way to an answer.

Medical influencer Joel Bervell is challenging racism in health care, one TikTok at a time.

The vulva has long been ignored in anatomical study. But scientists and doctors are making strides in mapping its pleasure center, the clitoris, and improving sensation for survivors of genital cutting.

Archeologists have found a small mountain of artifacts buried in a farm field that show the presence of some of the first peoples to inhabit the Americas.

Compared with other diseases with similar economic burdens, research on endometriosis is severely underfunded, in large part because we don’t talk about periods.

Our current carbon-heavy economic system creates bars around us that stop effective climate change action.

Why on earth would you try to “brew” anything using parasitic fish that slurp the blood and guts out of other fish?

The U.S. has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates among developed countries. Researchers from North Carolina to the West Coast are working with parents like Vu-An Foster to understand why.

Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y., had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements. In the final episode of this season’s Lost Women of Science podcast, we see how Y.Y.’s more than five decades of teaching educated a new generation of mechanical engineers, who credit her with helping to change the industry

Crystal Lee grew up the granddaughter of Navajo medicine men. As COVID wreaked havoc on her community, she decided to act

The Motor City is perhaps the only large city in the country with groups of the beautiful nonnative fowl running around its fields and lots.