In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

For decades, the agency has redacted drug names from reports. Now, several former officials support ending the practice.

Peatlands act as a crucial climate regulator, and are increasingly at the center of conflicts over resource extraction.

Millions of women have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. But diagnoses and treatments vary considerably.

Late last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is overseen by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., drew a line in the sand over direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical ...

With the first light, men in long boats are on the Upper Citarum River, filling their hulls with bottles, cans and bits of broken plastic — anything that can be recycled for a few rupiahs. Everything ...

Authors don’t get to choose what’s going on in the world when their books are published. More than a few luckless writers ended up with a publication date of Sept. 11, 2001, or perhaps Nov. 8, 2016, ...

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Oren Harman's "Metamorphosis" explores the minutiae of biological change and the mechanics of how life shifts forms.

For years, Ron Low took pride in his ability to give his wife multiple orgasms in a single sexual encounter. This was possible, in part, because his erections lasted up to an hour. By the age of 38, ...