GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed says the U.S.'s intellectual property laws are meant to incentivize people to take risks by protecting the things they invent, and that taking those rights away even during a pandemic could be controversial.

CRISPR has enabled us to manipulate the code of life. Where might it take us next?

By being able to wait for better food, cuttlefish — the squishy sea creatures similar to octopuses and squids — showed self-control that's linked to the…

The artist Grimes recently sold a bunch of NFTs for nearly $6 million. An NFT of LeBron James making a historic dunk for the Lakers garnered more than…

The third COVID-19 vaccine authorized for use in the U.S. requires one shot instead of two, and works a slightly different way from the others. Here's what we know about its safety and effectiveness.

Scientists are spotting new coronavirus variants almost on a daily basis. So far public health experts are still most worried about three important ones.

The red-cockaded woodpecker has been listed as endangered for more than half a century, but that could soon change.In the final months of the Trump…

Off the coast of England, there's a tiny, wind-swept island with the remains of a lifeboat rescue station from the mid-1800s. The workers who once ran the…

Researchers say two-way communication is possible with people who are asleep and dreaming. Specifically, with people who are lucid dreaming — that is,…

The world has gotten really clean during the pandemic — and our hyper-sanitized lives may pose health risks.