With a median age of 45.1 years, Maine is the oldest state, putting it in a unique position to provide insights to the rest of the nation about how it manages the needs of its older residents.

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...

Seventy years have passed, and we’re all about proving human worth. It’s like needing a guide to breathe. We’re talking about the Universal Declaration. International laws always mention dignity. The ...

Butterflies, known for their beauty and vital role in pollination, are vanishing from U.S. landscapes at an alarming rate. A comprehensive study, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that ...

A new study published in Science is challenging long-held assumptions about how we measure genetic risk in endangered species. Researchers analyzed whole genomes from hundreds of koalas, finding that ...

People gather at a market in Mumbai, India. A working paper from an independent body that gives economic advice to the Indian government has published controversial findings that critics say could sow ...

In half of all the world's countries, the fertility rate is already too low to maintain their population sizes, according to data collected by hundreds of international researchers and reported in The ...