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Activist groups effectively use fear-based PR campaigns to drive pesticides and other important products off the market. What can scientists ...

A viral Facebook post recently alleged that Goldfish crackers contain dangerous amounts of the weedkiller glyphosate. Is there any science ...

The pioneering IVF procedure known as mitochondrial donation therapy (MDT) could prevent children from being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases ...

Are you getting a potentially toxic dose of chemicals every time you eat fish? A new study has raised this ...

Is ChatGPT more empathetic than your doctor? A recent study seems to suggest so. An emerging consensus of scientists is ...

The future lies in our farmlands — as the fossil fuels industry fades, crops like camelina, a flowering seed oil ...

Scientists are encouraged to step into the public conversation around controversial work, especially when that work seems to deliberately misinform, ...

The Philippines recently approved the cultivation of Golden Rice to prevent blindness and death caused by vitamin A deficiency (VAD) ...

Could ice cream reduce your risk of diabetes and obesity? A surprising amount of evidence supports that hypothesis. How do ...

In 2011, biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped discover the genetic editing tool CRISPR. Today CRISPR is actively deployed in clinical trials ...

The same technology that yielded COVID-19 vaccines could help protect livestock from deadly diseases, but a growing chorus of skeptics ...

Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) metrics are supposed to help promote sustainable industry, but could they actually undermine efforts to make farming more ...

So-called "clean" cosmetics have become a big business in recent years. But as with food fads like "Non-GMO," clean cosmetics ...

Have we so badly depleted the world's soil that we only have 60 harvests left? No. New "green" pesticides could ...

Scientists are looking into ways to manipulate the body's natural electrical fields to try and treat wounds, depression, paralysis, and ...

It's the time of year when Environmental Working Group (EWG) puts out its much-ballyhooed "dirty dozen" list of fruits and ...

Many people have turned to low-carb diets as a way to shed unwanted body fat, but a new study suggests ...

Researchers think they understand how some dinosaurs grew so large. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Michael D'Emic, paleontologist at Adelphi ...

The European Union is all too happy to allow consumers to eat potentially dangerous bug-based food, yet it remains hostile ...

Social scientists have long sought to better understand how and why different behavioral traits develop in different individuals. The question ...

Does dark chocolate reduce your heart disease risk? The FDA says candy companies need to tread lightly when it comes ...

A bottle of perfume used to cost more than $10,000. The price has dropped precipitously thanks to advancements in synthetic ...

Cystic fibrosis is a fatal condition that claims patients at an early age, so why does it persist? Soaring seed ...

Dozens of researchers recently blasted two universities for inviting anti-vaccine, anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva to speak. Why do America's academic ...

There was quite a bit of buzz when the idea of gene edited crops first became public. But what can ...

If you drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, a growing body of evidence suggests that your genetics may have predisposed you ...

The Genetic Literacy Project is a popular and respected science organization that promotes innovation and research using the cutting-edge tools ...