Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences directly laid off 75 staff across its social sciences units last week — nearly one-third of employees covered by the restructuring and more than twice the number ...

For life to get started it may have depended on one of the rarest, and currently most expensive, metals on Earth.

Back pain comes for most of us at some point. Chronic low back pain — defined as lasting more than 12 weeks — is a leading ...

While the start to this year's wildfire season in Canada got off to a slow start, it intensified rapidly, with fires ...

With treatments offering only modest benefits, financial resources could be more usefully directed at improving social care ...

Life on Earth is thought to have emerged from the primordial ooze some four billion years ago. Now a provocative new study ...

Fidelity European Trust may have tripped up last year, but it has a strong long-term record, says Max King. Should you invest ...

The conditions underlying intense July wildfires were made roughly twice as likely due to human-induced climate change, said ...

One "non-negotiable property of life," the authors write, is our metabolism, the more than 400 complex chemical reactions organisms use to convert energy in a usable form. So to trace the origins of ...

The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial ...