Fifty years ago, human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. Some 650 million people around the world watched the historic landing on July 20, 1969, and heard astronaut Neil Armstrong say “.. ...

Preliminary data shows that drug overdose deaths may have fallen by 5 percent in 2018 — the first drop in overdose deaths since the country’s opioid epidemic began in the 1990s. The data, first report ...

Before Hurricane Barry made landfall in Louisiana over the weekend as a tropical storm, forecasters predicted potentially dire impacts for the coast. The National Hurricane Center said that the storm ...

Here are some numbers we need to reckon with: the number of suicide deaths in people ages 15 to 24, over 36 years in the United States. As you can see in this chart, after a steep drop in the late 199 ...

Today, humans inhabit almost every corner of the earth. But why? Our dispersal can be traced back to a group of humans who left Africa sometime around 50,000 years ago. Anyone not purely of African an ...

There’s a mass of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean that last year, at its peak, was so large it stretched all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa. It’s the biggest bloom of seaweed ever record ...