A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.

The number of women worldwide seeking medical help for fertility problems is growing, with a predominantly Chinese research ...

Investors who want lower-risk alternatives to stocks should begin with liquid funds and gradually move to other debt funds as ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Is the number of girls raped in the United Kingdom by grooming gangs definitively documented to be 250,000? No, that's not true: That figure is an extrapolation using an unclear methodology based on ...

To the Editor — The 'Statphys' conferences on statistical physics take place every three years on a different continent. The number of participants can fluctuate greatly from conference to conference, ...

More than 41 million adults intend to enroll in postsecondary education of some sort in the next two years, finds a new report. But will they do so, is the big question.

During the second quarter, we sold out four stock positions and added two new ones to the portfolio. Read more here.

Børnich, a forty-two-year-old Norwegian, has been obsessed with robots since he was a child. His firm used to be called ...

Starting Wednesday, millions of Medicare-qualifying adults will have access to popular medications for weight loss at deep ...

Polling firms are tweaking their designs, finding new ways to reach people and reassessing who they predict will turn out to ...