Eighteen months ago, I asked whether anti-vaccine rhetoric and a retreat from infectious-disease preparedness might open the ...
Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control.
It's the beginning of October, which means it's time to write about a birthstone. But there's a problem: October has two, which is too much work. Fortunately, my horoscope told me to pick opals rather ...
Brown rice is supposed to be the virtuous choice, a whole grain, with more nutrients and more fiber. It also contains more arsenic than white rice, a fact the Environmental Working Group turns into a ...
Allulose looks like sugar to a chemist but behaves rather differently inside the body. The FDA recognized that distinction ...
As measles cases surged across the country, federal health officials repeatedly stopped short of offering an unequivocal ...
How safe is safe enough? For a decade, EPA has struggled with that deceptively simple question under the Toxic Substances Control Act. A landmark Fifth Circuit decision on methylene chloride now draws ...
Autumn starts today, which means nature's annual leaf-color extravaganza is about to begin. This article is not as deadly ...
"Carbon monoxide" and "brain health" aren't terms normally found in the same sentence, at least not in a good way. But a ...