A new study by cell biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that an early first pregnancy may protect against breast cancer decades later by preventing age-related changes in ...

Confronting a catastrophic water crisis as millions forced to return to Afghanistan - IN FOCUS: With the return of millions of Afghans to their homeland as they are forced from neighbouring nations, ...

EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS The roughly 40 million Americans who get their water from a private well are particularly vulnerable ...

Nepal, Feb. 2 -- A common charge feminists in many post-colonial nations face is that their activism is "imported" from the West. When they challenge harmful practices within their own societies or ...

Western Monarch Day exists because one of North America’s most visible migrations nearly vanished without ever making ...

The trip that opened Antarctica to tourists – 60 years on, was it a mistake? - The first tourists stepped ashore at Smith ...

This week, federal agencies prepare for a partial government shutdown as the Senate advances an appropriations agreement that, if passed, will move ...

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...

When Barbara Miller was in elementary school, she covered her face while walking to class. “It hurt so bad to breathe. Your neck, your throat, your eyes,” Miller said. Doors that led to a breezeway ...