Medical and recreational cannabis use is now legal in many parts of the world, but questions remain about its effect on ...

What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a ...

A first-of-its-kind study testing the blood of Maryland residents for toxic forever chemicals found every participant had PFAS in their blood.

A growing body of research has raised questions about the environmental effects of microplastics. A study last month found their presence increased the spread of antibiotic drug resistance by up to ...

A new bill would ban more than 1,000 pesticides containing so-called forever chemicals that are currently used on crops, in ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

The study said the babies, in their first six months, can tell apart sounds from languages they've never even heard.

Infertility is a problem that affects between 8% and 12% of couples of reproductive age worldwide – for some of them, the ...

Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

A study published in Nature Medicine looks at microplastic accumulation in human organs.

Understanding is often defined as the ability to form mental models of the world, reason about cause and effect, and predict ...