The first cases of what became known as Havana syndrome were reported in 2016. U.S. diplomats and foreign officials in places like Russia, China and Cuba began to suffer from a mysterious illness.

Pulsed microwaves or ultrasound beams “plausibly” might have caused so-called Havana Syndrome injuries now thought to have affected about two dozen CIA and State Department employees, according to a ...

From polluted oceans to outer space, bacteria have shown they can survive and evolve in some of the harshest environments.

This week’s exercise in thinking begins with a simple question: if I asked you to explain a microwave to a caveman where would you begin? On the surface this task seems easy enough in that a microwave ...