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Here's how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts, and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking

Understanding what drives household-level decisions to cook with polluting stoves and fuels must be grounded in theory for sustained change to occur

Scotland is offering tampons and other period products free to anyone who needs them— the first nation in the world to do so

There are imbalances in global health that perpetuate inequalities in the authorship of scientific publications

For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation

The detection of the virus in sewage suggests it is circulating in the city, Health Department officials said

A new study shows Arctic warming is much worse than scientists thought

The Inflation Reduction Act promises the largest investment in climate action in U.S. history and could lead to significant emissions reductions

William MacAskill's movement set out to help the global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway A.I. Have they seen our threats clearly?

An international team of scientists identified a new virus that was likely to have been transmitted to humans after it first infected animals

The embryo developed for eight days, with a beating heart, a rudimentary brain and a gut tube

The U.S. needs a concerted effort to make sure enough vaccines and therapeutics are available to address needs and to reduce suffering