In honor of Black History Month, we're covering five milestones in Black health history, from the good and great to the bad and ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...

Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

The Aga Khan IV, a billionaire businessman who died on Feb 4, aged 88 years, repeatedly rejected the title of philanthropist ...

Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers have recently published a piece in the Journal of Medical Internet Research ...

Rhinoplasties were 2024's top facial plastic surgery procedure. Now, a less-invasive "mini surgery" called the tip stitch is revolutionizing the nose job and aesthetics.

A shocking case reignites national debate over child protection and institutional failure.

Convulsive therapies are an underappreciated treatment that can alleviate symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders through rapid cycles of muscle contraction ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...