Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

Kim Jong Un’s regime is incorporating tactics which are proving successful against Western air defenses in Europe and the Middle East.

I find it’s helpful to think about limits. That’s why I like thermodynamics. It tells you what you can and can’t do and how you might try to get around that. There are two immediate limits to the deve...

A chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days to the present.

Philip K. Dick's "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb" (1965)

Filmmaker Errol Morris considers the ethical quandaries of the Bomb, then and now.

A grim briefing on the consequences of the US nuclear war plan from June 1956

Compared to about a decade ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said congenital syphilis cases are 700% higher nationwide.

FRIDAY, April 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Health officials in New Jersey are warning people of possible measles exposure after confirming the state’s first case

The "nightmare dream" of a runaway nuclear reaction, 1903–1979

"Atomic bombs" before the discovery of fission

Congress posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to U.S. Army veteran Benjamin Ferencz for investigating and prosecuting Nazi war criminals.

Revolution Medicines' drug for pancreatic cancer succeeded in a highly anticipated Phase 3 trial, the company said.

A traveling exhibition traces how the animation studio mobilized to support the Allied war effort