Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .

An insulin pill in development shows early promise as a novel form of diabetes therapy.

Vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits appear to have lifesaving benefits.

These five tips from scientists will help you in the kitchen this holiday season.

Predicting intensity, impact of this winter’s El Niño is complicated by unprecedented confluence of weather anomalies.

U.N. World Toilet Day, Nov. 19, highlights global sanitation shortfalls and their toll on human health and the environment.

More women than ever before are running the state's largest public firms, but they still hold just one in eight of the senior executive and director positions in corporate California. 

Atlantic Philanthropies funds UCSF and Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, to stem the precipitous rise in dementia by training and connecting a new generation of leaders worldwide.

Even tots younger than 2 can tell when someone's trying to pull a fast one.

Researchers are optimistic about climate change solutions.

Eight-year-old Sophie doesn’t have fully developed finger bones in her left hand, but with the help of a CITRIS Invention Lab team, she is the new user of a 3-D printed super hand.

Breakup of Zachariae Isstrom could substantially raise sea levels around the globe.