In "Huge Numbers," mathematician Richard Elwes spotlights some of the largest numbers humans have ever contemplated.

Homesick for a World Unknown,” by Miriam Horn, is an intimate portrait of renowned wildlife biologist George Schaller.

As cases mount, industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

Some analysts think the markets could out-compete polls in newsrooms and more, but the approaches are vastly different.

In “The Return of the Oystercatcher,” Scott Weidensaul examines bird conservation successes as some populations rebound.

Title X funding appears to be shifting away from contraception. Experts say that's unlikely to change fertility rates.

Finding ways to ease the suffering of beached whales has been a challenge. Whale experts may have found an answer.

Randy Hatton ran the hotline. His students fielded dozens of drug-related questions from pharmacists, physicians, and even the occasional vet. When the phones rang, Hatton and his team never knew what ...

Tropodo is a pretty village of narrow streets and brightly colored houses, set amid lush green fields in the eastern part of Java, Indonesia’s most populous island. Tall chimneys puffing streams of ...

Implemented a decade ago, the Sex as a Biological Variable policy, or SABV, addressed an important shortcoming: Evidence had shown that diseases and drugs can in some instances affect women and men ...

When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years. The government had deemed him trustworthy through his career in the Army. But ...

In 2015, Peter Stout, head of the Houston Forensic Science Center, began administering a test that was designed to not look like a test. Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the ...