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Valentine’s Day often focuses on romance, but deep friendships deserve love, too. Here’s why they matter.

Multiple-study analysis looks at why men’s emotional intimacy is much more difficult outside of romantic relationships

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in infectious-disease research. Here’s what he might do as the U.S.’s newly confirmed secretary of health and human services

Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer

With hospitalizations and at least nine confirmed cases, health officials race to contain a growing outbreak in a community with low vaccination

Marthe Gautier speaks out about how she found the genetic cause of Down syndrome

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the U.S. flower market

A genetic tweak keeps potatoes efficient in the heat

President Trump ordered EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to decide by next week whether the agency could abandon its authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act

Scientists have reported a new strain of bird flu in Nevada dairy cattle. And viral spread in pet cats has fueled worries over increased risk of exposure to humans

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance when they recognize those spots

A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to date