The cancer death rate declined by 29% from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported.

NASA's ARIA team mapped damage in southwestern Puerto Rico following a 6.4-magnitude quake and hundreds of aftershocks.

A new digital platform helps teachers in disciplines from psychology to literature incorporate climate change into their curricula.

Texas A&M scientists found that insect leaf-wounding in plants triggers a stress response that produces healthier organic fruit.

Low-cost sensors provide localized air quality data.

A device that uses electricity generated by plants as its power source has communicated via satellite – a world first.

Satellite captures images of flooding after heavy rainfall.

Water is all around us and essential for life. Nevertheless, research into its behaviour at the atomic level – above all how it interacts with surfaces – is thin on the ground.

A new MIT study finds “health knowledge graphs,” which show relationships between symptoms and diseases and are intended to help with clinical diagnosis, can fall short for certain conditions and patient populations.

The brain is a sort of fortress, equipped with barriers designed to keep out dangerous pathogens.