The EPA has quietly approved additional PFAS pesticides to spray crops despite scientific concerns over potential toxicity.

A research team from the Natural History Museum of Denmark has published a compelling new study in insect taxonomy in the ...

Just before her 20th birthday, college student Maryn Lester was asked by her adoptive parents to come home to Fairhope, Ala., for the weekend. Little did she know that the mysterious request would ...

DETROIT (AP) — Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators ...

Last month, the long-awaited American Women’s History Museum hit another wall — not because of indifference, but because lawmakers who claim to champion women refused to support it. A clarifying bill ...

A four-week diet change was enough to make some older adults appear biologically younger in a new University of Sydney study. Participants who reduced fat intake or shifted toward more plant-based ...

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

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Medicine often loves a good bout of cockeyed optimism. Psychiatry’s latest came in the latter twentieth century. A review in the Lancet calls it a time when “it seemed that even the most intractable ...

We're diving into one of the UK's most controversial Supreme Court decisions, covering the headline that's got everyone talking about gender, rights, and society's future. #news #UK #society #debate ...

It can be estimated theoretically that more unique biological interactions exist than stars in our known universe. The biological foundations of life are built on an unimaginably vast network of ...