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Greenpeace USA faces possible dissolution after losing $667 million defamation suit for orchestrating ‘unlawful’ demonstrations against a North Dakota pipeline project
Energy Transfer filed the colossal lawsuit in 2019, accusing Greenpeace of providing resources, including supplies, intel and training, to encourage ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s announced “much-needed” agricultural ‘reforms’ are ‘indiscriminate’, ‘contradict the administration’s stated priorities’ and ‘undermine American innovation’
The early days of Donald Trump’s second presidential term saw a record number of executive orders, an almost immediate freeze ...
Viewpoint: The FDA under Trump 2.0, Marty Makary and RFK, Jr.: Uncertainty threatens
What would the Food and Drug Administration look like under Martin "Marty" Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, President Trump's soon-to-be ...
45% of Americans will develop osteoporosis of the knee in their lifetime. How did evolution botch this?
The groans of pain as we get up from the sofa or the sound of crunching cartilage when taking the ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. peddles fringe theories to explain away measles outbreak and, again, falsely links vaccines to autism
[Robert F. Kennedy [Jr.] offered conflicting public health messages as he tried to reconcile the government’s longstanding endorsement of vaccines ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the agricultural misinformation zealots—Sustainable agriculture requires judicious weed management and crop chemicals
Any discussion of crop chemicals must consider the broad sweep of agricultural history, the pivotal moments of technological innovation, and ...
Viewpoint: Attack of the thin mints? Why Moms Across America (MAA) claims of ‘dangeous’ pesticide residues in Girl Scout Cookies are wrong and insidious
For generations, it's been a cherished part of American life: the excited Girl Scouts at their cookie booths, the ritual ...
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...
Viewpoint: ‘Only in California could coffee both cause and prevent cancer’
Welcome to California, the Wild West - geographically and otherwise. Especially when it comes to science ...
Viewpoint: Anatomy of junk science—Dissecting yet another attempt by activist scientists to ‘link’ vaccines to autism
A newly published study is being widely circulated, purportedly showing a link between vaccines and autism. A closer look at ...
Viewpoint: The v-Fluence attack file—How the Environmental Working Group undermines science, destroys careers and harms the environment
Just before Christmas Day, 2024, three months after a mendacious, coordinated activist onslaught, the communications consultancy, v- Fluence, began the ...
Popcorn was ‘invented’ at least 6700 years ago
You have to wonder how people originally figured out how to eat some foods that are beloved today. The cassava ...
Glyphosate, conspiracy and Scientology: Church’s messy relationship with RFK, Jr. raises awkward questions about its influence on US science policy going forward
Although the public is largely unaware, the controversial Church of Scientology has injected itself into the middle of the contentious ...
Regulatory roadblocks set up decades ago hindering the adoption of sustainability-enhancing gene edited crops
Hardly a day goes by without another piece praising the potential for gene editing to help solve climate change.1 Nevertheless, ...
Can eating too much protein hurt us?
Today’s high-protein diet takes many forms. From the Atkins diet to the paleo diet and even some versions of the keto diet, protein is ...
‘Your spatula will kill you’: How a junk academic journal and a credulous media touched off yet another chemophobia scare
For months, the media indulged in a frenzy of fearmongering, plastering headlines about toxic flame retardants supposedly hiding in your ...
Race and evolution: How our political beliefs about human differences endanger health care
W[/drocap]hen it comes to race and ethnicity, we’ve long been juggling sociocultural constructs like they’re scientific gospel. A new study ...
What’s ‘sustainable abundance’ and how can we deploy technological innovation to achieve it?
We're at a decisive moment. Throughout history, each generation faces unique challenges and opportunities, perceiving their times as unprecedented. This ...
Viewpoint: After an unexpected and controversial federal ruling, the regulatory future of gene edited crops in the US is cloudy
The use of molecular techniques to create genetically engineered (GE) crops has now become trapped in the over-regulation of a ...
Viewpoint: New Health and Human Services Secretary RFK, Jr. — America’s health, food and farming nightmare begins
Without question, the United States of America leads the world in health and agricultural innovation. We have created a system ...
Does the US uniquely require more vaccinations than other countries as RFK Jr. and other shot critics claim?
Issue: Childhood vaccination rates fell worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, reductions in childhood vaccination were not universal, which may ...
Viewpoint: How to devolutionize American food and agriculture—RFK, Jr. has a clear disaster of a plan. Don’t say we haven’t been warned
Before nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services, President Donald Trump promised to let him ...
The humble potato is undergoing a genetic revolution. Here’s how and what that means
In a field near the Dutch village of Angeren, a biotechnology company named Solynta grows potatoes in square plots, about 16 ...
Are you a fervent reader? It’s likely genetic
The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they ...
Precision agriculture: Promoted as a revolutionary improvement in farming, the promise is finally coming to fruition
For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock, or any other ...
Viewpoint: The ‘post genomic era’ reveals nothing less than a new biology. We just don’t know how to talk about it
You could be forgiven for thinking that the turn of the millennium was a golden age for the life sciences ...
The next ‘big thing’ in genetically modified crops: Drought-tolerant and herbicide resistant wheat. Here’s what you need to know
Archaeological evidence suggests that around 9,500 BCE, people in the Fertile Crescent began cultivating wheat as one of their first ...
