The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a rule to drastically reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products.

Logistical needs, like employment and housing, along with psychological needs must be met after disasters like the LA wildfires, research shows.

As Trump takes office, issues of arms control, the U.S. arsenal and weapons testing will be on the radar for many nuclear weapons researchers.

The gyrations of hoop-slinging robots reveal that hourglass-shaped objects are best at keeping a hoop in the air.

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One of the most extreme megadroughts has helped fuel wildfires in Los Angeles County and elsewhere in California.

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

When Laura Gould’s daughter died in 1997, there was almost no research in unexpected deaths in children older than one. Gould helped change that.

Members of a Stone Age culture in Denmark may have ritually buried stones to counter the effects of a volcanic eruption.

Some sleep machines produce dangerous amounts of white noise, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be used safely It truly pains me to bring you tired parents another round of “Is this bad for ...