Modified medication targets the cells implicated in the condition’s tell-tale lesions.

Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

Canadian publisher LabX Media Group acquired Scientific American from Springer Nature, cut 15 roles and moved to halt a staff unionization bid that began in April.

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Finally, we have data to show that paracervical blocks can work.

Have you heard? The federal government is systematically dismantling the infrastructure that makes American research possible. Not hypothetically. It is happening right now. Grants are being terminat...

Distrust and violence flare in the Democratic Republic of Congo as false claims spread that the outbreak — and the disease itself — is a hoax.

A meteor exploded off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom to be heard throughout the state Saturday afternoon, according to WBZ-TV Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher.

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Food sovereignty -- the ability to access traditional foods from salmon to roots berries and shellfish -- is at the core of tribal health, wellness and culture.

Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and hunt too, according to a study published in PLOS One by Daniel Groß from th...

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

A targeted chemotherapy drug approved for treatment of breast cancer showed clinical benefit in patients with treatment-resistant uterine cancer.

Recent work explores whether a commonly assumed source of data–model disagreement in simulations of stellar interiors is really to blame.

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

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite combination.

A new meta-analysis posits an aerobic exercise therapeutic window for reducing migraine pain and frequency, though uncertainty remains.

The largest trial to date of candesartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker, confirms the efficacy of two different doses to alleviate episodic migraine.

Workers at Science News and Science News Explores have been bargaining their first union contract for over a year now. Despite the entire staff's proven ability to work effectively from home, manageme...

In this Migraine Science Collaborative interview, Yohannes Woldeamanuel talks about the hidden complexities of the circadian system and shares his experience on this new migraine research frontier.

Scientists say they’ve found the cause of a marine epidemic more than 10 years after it started. What took so long?

In this Migraine Science Collaborative interview, Christina Szperka sits down with science journalist Freda Kreier to talk about how she got started in the field, the peculiarities of pediatric migrai...

If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Members of the migraine community express uncertainty about how the new directives will play out.

The first study of its kind shows that fremanezumab could be an effective drug to manage this common comorbidity of migraine.