Yet until recently, scientists didn’t fully understand why bats are so good at harboring pathogens that don’t seem to harm ...

Gen Z and millennials are ditching career ambition for balance post-COVID. What's behind this shift—and is it permanent?

Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted an online conversation on Wednesday with the ...

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math.

Too few leaders have learned the critical lesson that international cooperation is essential to pandemic prevention, ...

Education experts said the NAEP test scores show students are catching up after pandemic-related learning loss.

For many workers, remote work wasn't a blip of the pandemic but a work structure that lingered long after, especially for ...

Five years ago today, a global announcement was made that saw the world change.

Sepsis is an underestimated killer. Nearly a quarter of patients treated for sepsis in hospital will die, but because so many ...

R obert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was grilled by Democratic senators during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 29, who ...

People still see COVID-19 as an ongoing public health threat, even though the pandemic officially ended in 2023, acc ...

We’re not seeing the progress we need to regain the ground our students lost during the pandemic,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, of the NAEP test ...