"Sugar is addictive." It's a widespread, well-researched claim—and it's probably false. The assertion oversimplifies complex ...

The Trump Administration has gutted many areas of healthcare funding and research, especially in infectious diseases. One ...

Rapid unscheduled disassembly” — the corporate version of “oops,” made famous by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Whether it’s exploding ...

What starts as digital applause can quickly devolve into a chorus of chaos. In the Wild West of online connections, praise, poison, and pseudoscience often sit side by side—especially when the topic ...

Imagine discovering that up to one in three dementia cases could be prevented with something as simple as treating hearing ...

China’s dominance of the market for "active pharmaceutical ingredients" — critical components of drugs — has given it ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear ...

Cannabis laws in the U.S. are what you’d get if a biochemistry textbook and a Kafka novel had a love child — nonsensical, ...

If paying more for produce that’s neither cleaner, greener, nor more nutritious sounds like a good deal, organic farming is ...

Imagine receiving the news that you're developing an extremely aggressive cancer — and that the only way to prevent it from ...

Opinions regarding “safe” and unsafe foods vacillate more than hem-length fashion. While we disregard emerging data, fail to ...

The U.S. government spends over $160 billion annually on scientific research. This massive expense is marketed to taxpayers ...