Cheese, fermented cabbage, roadkill – these are how some people have described the smell emitting from a corpse flower that ...

From flowers that reek of decay to succulents shaped like brains and eyeballs, these eerie plants are proof that Mother Nature can do spooky better than any special-effects artist ever could.

The most oft-quoted average rate of human hair growth is 6 inches (15 centimeters) per year. However, the majority of studies measuring the rate of hair growth didn't take into account the race of ...

Nothing snuffs out questions about a near-octogenarian president’s health quite like that president repeatedly bragging about passing a dementia test and telling the world he ignores his doctors and ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

We look at the uniquely American animosity toward artificial intelligence. By Evan Gorelick I’m a writer for this newsletter. Technological change can be unsettling. Industrialization brought a moral ...

The State Department has renewed its "do not travel" advisory for Russia. The existing travel advisory was reissued this week without edits, with the State Department citing a myriad of high risks ...