By: Jess Aloe Lab directors of major medical centers across the nation have written a letter against proposed federal regulation of so-called LDTs – the…

Sen. Edward J. Markey and other lawmakers are urging the Obama Administration to release draft recommendations that could spell out how a growing number…

Beach reading should be enjoyable, of course, but that doesn’t mean it has to be brainless.Here are my summer reading picks for the science-minded, plus…

As Lyme disease becomes an increasingly challenging public health threat across the Northeast, a growing number of tests for the vexing ailment may be misdiagnosing patients when telling them that they have — or don't have — the tick-borne illness.

Coastal casualties have almost become routine: Beloved Plum Island homes devoured by rising seas; Nantucket mansions picked up and moved inland; Scituate homes continually rebuilt after being hit again and again by the Atlantic.

Even in the digital age, some of the most impressive special effects come from Mother Nature. Earlier today, at 2:14 a.m. to be exact, a handful of…

When meteorologists first saw Hurricane Sandy forming off the East Coast almost two years ago, they knew it looked bad. But the resulting damage to New…

A researcher at New York University recently built a jellyfish-like device that could fly and hover with remarkable stability, and Boston University…

It’s being called one of the biggest scientific discoveries in history. Over the weekend, the theory of “inflation,” described as the “smoking gun” of the…

The vast majority of Americans say they’d like to know if they’re eating genetically modified food, and Massachusetts is among two dozen states…