There were 3.3 deaths per 100,000 live births. The rate was highest among non-Hispanic Black women, and researchers found significant variance by geographic region.

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health reveals a previously underappreciated tension at the heart of international climate negotiations: policies designed to protect developing countries ...

Can colleges teach other institutions to operate efficiently in a political landscape where half of the population is at loggerheads with the other half?

You can move around, zoom, and pan wherever imagery is available in that location. Using your knowledge of landmarks, language, and culture you then try to figure out where the heck you are. When you ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take millions of years to form, but that is giving scientists ample time to glean ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...