Only about 6.9% of the total U.S. population buys health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, ...

New study highlights 'grave, growing' danger of plastic pollution to world's health In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on plastic ...

Using artificial intelligence to process drone images is allowing researchers to tackle plastic pollution in the ocean in new ways. Oceanographers and computer scientists in Japan are spearheading an ...

Immigrant rights advocates have filed a lawsuit seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from ending temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to thousands of ...

Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk was hit with a class action lawsuit in New York federal court on Friday for allegedly misusing its patents to maintain a monopoly on its diabetes drug Victoza.