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It's pretty amazing: bones from thousands of years ago yielded traces of malaria parasites. Disease historians are surprised by what they've learned.

Absolute Equality, the art exhibit founded by Reginald Adams, is doing artwork around the country in honor of Juneteenth. This year, exhibits are going up in Denver, Atlanta and L.A.

After almost four years in the making, the Melbourne-based shelter called Helen’s House is opening its doors and taking their first guests this week.

The explorer led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and he was in the early stages of a fourth when he died of a heart attack aboard the Quest near the Falkland Islands.

No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.

Paola Barranco thinks such a new source of soft, precious stuff could be an attractive, environmentally friendly option in a state with a shortage of quality beach sand.

A new study finds that during smoky years like 2018, when the town of Paradise burned down, more than 10,000 people died prematurely. It's a wake-up call about the scale of the problem, they say.

Early adolescence is a time when kids are becoming more independent and spending more time on social media. When it comes to curbing screen time in this age group, new research suggests some parental strategies work better than others.

A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

Fifty-one years ago, Washington created a daring program to fight poverty. But instead of lifting people, it now traps them in poverty.