The federal government announced a new approach to regulating pharmaceutical ads. Consumers may not see a difference.

Millions of women have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. But diagnoses and treatments vary considerably.

Peatlands act as a crucial climate regulator, and are increasingly at the center of conflicts over resource extraction.

For months, agency scientists have been waiting for the Trump administration to release their final report on PFNA.

Amid Trump-era funding turmoil, foundations are finding themselves pulled in many directions to fill in the gaps.

CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. The anti-sunscreen movement’s concerns stem in part from data showing that chemicals in certain sunscreens ...

Oren Harman's "Metamorphosis" explores the minutiae of biological change and the mechanics of how life shifts forms.

On a dark, drizzling January evening in 2014, Alyssa Gehman headed out to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state to catch the midnight tide. There, in the bitter winter darkness, she caught a sea ...

For decades, Sanibel Island, one of the most treasured vacation resorts in America, was an insurance agent’s dream. Year after year, the 5,000-odd residents of the barrier island on Florida’s Gulf ...

Carbon dioxide has a terrible reputation. It’s much maligned because of its role as a biosphere-threatening pollutant, but in fact the atmospheric compound has been a critical driving force behind the ...

Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild talk to Tom Zeller Jr., Undark’s editor-in-chief, about covering science under the Trump administration. On most ...