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Over and over, the term ‘organic’ is used as an umbrella for a variety of qualitative features in food. There ...

Can GLP-1 drugs for obesity and diabetes, like Ozempic and Wegovy, help change the food industry? Consumers on these drugs ...

Are organic foods really pesticide-free? Nope. Organic industry marketing misinformation is everywhere. An anonymous French whistleblower claims to have found ...

It was three months ago when we wrote about the surge of the H5N1 bird flu strain that had by then already ...

Cancer is a catch-all for hundreds of unique diseases, which develop when cells in your body no longer listen to ...

The Huntington’s disease (HD) community has recently experienced setbacks, but a new research report may reignite hope, from an unexpected ...

In the ordinary chronicling of agribashing, we recently witnessed in France a ‘scary’ report on Google News or MSN News ...

Small pieces of plastic, now termed microplastics have infiltrated all ecosystems, posing a severe threat to wildlife…and now us. New research has ...

Any discussion of crop chemicals must consider the broad sweep of agricultural history, the pivotal moments of technological innovation, and ...

Do mRNA COVID vaccines "shed" particles? This anti-vax myth rears its ugly head yet again. Are milk and meat alternatives ...

Bumblebees appear to be quite resistant to common pesticides. This is shown by a new study, the results of which ...

Many prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades ...

Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

As a biomedical scientist, it has never failed to annoy me that the term ‘organic’ has been co-opted to spread ...

Posts were appearing on my Facebook feed warning against the dangers of eating tilapia. So I decided to do a ...

The media call it the “Insect Apocalypse”. In the past few years, the phrase has become an accepted truth of ...

Psychotropic drugs are all the rage now as a potential treatment of brain diseases. Examples are ketamine and psilocybin for ...

Are cows really a major cause of climate change? Wealthy nations are not pushing people to switch to a plant-based ...

A breakthrough almost decade-long study of a spray vaccine offers promise for billions of women who suffer from urinary tract ...

RFK, Jr. has resurrected the long-debunked speculation that atrazine, a low-toxicity weedkiller, causes sexual dysphoria in frogs—and humans. The oft-reported ...

Doubling government funding for agricultural research and development (R&D) would have tremendous environmental and economic benefits, according to a new ...

“Meet Invisible Woods: a clean, refreshing scent revived from extinct flower DNA,” beneath an image of “origin flower” Wendlandia angustifolia ...

Plant pests and disease have a massive global impact, causing the loss of 20–40% of crop production and costing over USD 220 billion ...

It’s been too short a time since I last wrote about the antivaccine myth of “shedding,” particularly in the context of ...

What can--or should--be done about genetic predispositions that lead to grim social consequences in only some of the people with ...

The potential for allergies from foods with genetically modified ingredients is no higher than that in any food, including organics ...

In 1969, a fellow who felt that the eugenicist founders of Sierra Club were not militant enough in their war ...