She was told she was chasing the impossible. She persisted through poverty, skepticism, and 25,000 failed attempts. In the ...

Pesticides are designed to kill insects, fungi, and weeds. So, it is reasonable to wonder whether they can harm us as well.

Paracelsus taught us that “the dose makes the poison.” A new analysis of respiratory-virus infection suggests that biology ...

Something strange and potentially frightening is going on at a Russian laboratory in Siberia. One or more scientists have ...

A new CNN story is based on a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation, which is about as scientific as its name sounds ...

From the hidden institutional pressures ruining scientific integrity to the alarming public health signals behind rising ...

One component of healthcare’s access problem is the relative scarcity of physicians, a gap nurse practitioners (NPs) have ...

Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control.

Eighteen months ago, I asked whether anti-vaccine rhetoric and a retreat from infectious-disease preparedness might open the ...

How many cookies are too many? A new meta-analysis links greater consumption of ultra-processed foods to several chronic ...

Daubert was meant to keep unreliable science out of the courtroom by making judges gatekeepers who ensure the reliability and relevance of expert testimony and the underlying research. A recent Second ...

The media recently pushed alarming headlines claiming the EPA gutted clean-air rules by rolling back power plant greenhouse ...