Does it explain why we’re having so much trouble sleeping?

When bodies fight back against infection, they can overwhelm themselves with their own destructive force.

The long, wonderful history of the chili pepper.

Many people facing the end of their life receive treatments that ultimately have no benefit. A team of researchers set out to find out why.

Well-researched stories from Science, TribLive, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Goosebumps. The Baby-Sitters Club. Even Nancy Drew. In the 1990s, concerned educators wondered if series books were luring kids away from "literature."

Every generation of medical professionals has issued the same warnings about high heels. For hundreds of years.

In World War II, Mabel Keaton Staupers tirelessly fought for the integration of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps—and eventually won.

Nothing drives that home more than this amazing photo collection from the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing.

In the long time between The Jungle and today, meatpacking has changed—first for the better, due to strong unions, then for the worse.