A widely covered study alleges that humans lost the penile bone and a certain measure of endurance in mating. But that finding seems to be at odds with other studies.

Mommy blogs are filled with so much disinformation and scaremongering, they should be officially labeled an infectious disease vector.

Plague doctors have been wrongly put in the pantheon of quacks. In reality, they created the biohazard suit as we know it.

Clickbait punditry is selling a story about a study into male birth control whose participants wimped out. But that's not at all what happened...

We can't print fully functioning human organs suitable for transplantation just yet, but new experiments are getting close.

The first cancer-fighting gene therapy has been approved by the FDA, a major step towards turning cancers into manageable diseases.

Media reports about the carcinogenic properties of bacon have been greatly exaggerated thanks to the extremely confusing way IARC classifies studies.

A study tracking the benefits of standing desks shows no difference in health outcomes between sitting and standing at the office.

We finally know why elephants are more resistant to cancers than humans. Can we use the same strategy they do?

Anti-vaccine activists funded the most complete and thorough study of vaccine safety done to their exact specifications. Now they're livid because it found nothing even remotely concerning.

The City of Berkley took on science and the science lost because it was represented by a trade group that argued about free speech rights instead.

Small pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the patent system to jack up the prices of life-saving medication.

Technology that can keep organs preserved and functioning outside a body are raising some thorny moral questions for ethicists.

The easy way to make gene therapy more effective may be to resurrect a virus' evolutionary ancestors in a lab...

Why is Theranos so secretive about its technology? It may be because it has no incentive to disclose its methods...