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Diabetes Prevention in Midlife Helps Protect Aging Brain

People with type 2 diabetes in middle age had greater cognitive impairment in the following decades than did their nondiabetic counterparts. Dina Fine Maron reports...

Abortions in Medical Settings Rarely Have Major Complications

Careful tracking of more than 50,000 women during the six weeks after the procedure finds that serious adverse effects are rare. Dina Fine Maron reports...

Raw Milk Sicknesses Rise

Nonpasteurized milk is fueling more outbreaks and hospitalizations. Dina Fine Maron reports...

Avoid Backlit Reading Before Bed

Volunteers who read from an iPad before bed took longer to fall asleep and had less restful nights than when they read from a printed book. Dina Fine Maron reports....

Clock Ticking on Climate Change Prevention

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new synthesis report adds urgency to the need to cut additional greenhouse gas pollution...

Protected Areas Get Short Shrift

Protected land and sea areas serve the wildlife within them as well as the humans who live near them. But countries are backtracking on their financial commitments to these vital regions. Steve Mirsky reports...

Wildlife Crime? There's an App for That

A new tool may help officials crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. David Biello reports...

Sun's Magnetic Field Boosts Earth Lightning

When the Sun's magnetic field is pointed away from Earth, lightning strikes in the U.K. go up 50 percent. Christopher Intagliata reports...

Movies Can Boost Solar Power

The pattern that stores a film on a Blu-ray disc also can help improve photovoltaics. David Biello reports...

Plummeting Petroleum Price Gases Up Global Warming

Good news for gas and oil consumers can be bad news for the environment. David Biello reports...