Science Controversies

As Germany reels from an unexpected surge for the far right in the 24 September elections, researchers don’t expect much ...

[Editor's note: Karl Haro von Mogel has a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.] ...

A growing global food demand is challenged by the problem of limited crop-growing space. Could GMO-edited wheat meet this need ...

In the annals of deadly diseases, few have plagued humankind as viciously as malaria. ...But the disease continues to take ...

[Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)] have decided to bar lobbyists for Monsanto, the US agrochemical company, from the European ...

We all know that CRISPR is the next big thing in gene-editing treatments. But how do you get the versatile genetic scissors ...

While there are legions of plant researchers dedicated to the idea of using GMOs to maximize food production, there's a ...

Plant biologist Jared Westbrook: 4 billion American chestnut trees have died because of blight in the 20th century. Now, there ...

Tale of two neonicotinoid bumble bee studies—And how science can be massaged | Jon Entine Upchuck factor: Alcoholism targeted with novel ...

Uganda’s long-awaited national Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill was delayed again yesterday, but is likely to be passed next Tuesday [Oct ...

Is there truth to a common anti-GMO narrative that large multi-national companies seek to “control the food supply” through patents ...

The creators of a male birth control gel designed to inhibit sperm production—while maintaining healthy testosterone levels in the bloodstream—will ...

As resistance to antibiotics grows in the U.S., researchers are looking for new ways to fight germs like Clostridium difficile, a ...

Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35-year-old Frenchman ...

[Editor’s note: Gregory Jaffe is the Director of the Project on Biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public ...

Monsanto Co is working to develop what it hopes will be North America’s fastest-maturing corn, allowing farmers to grow more ...

Until now limited to America and the Caribbean, Spodoptera frugiperda [also known as the Fall Armyworm] is estimated to cause ...

People spend billions on sleep remedies. The act of sleep and artificially assisting sleep are not on the whole a ...

Onerous and expensive regulations have denied farmers’ access to new and existing Genetically Modified (GM) crop varieties and reduced their ...

People forced to avoid gluten could soon have their bread (and cake) and eat it. Now there are strains of wheat that ...

Monsanto Co. invited dozens of weed scientists to a summit this week to win backing for a controversial herbicide but ...

Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) is gearing up for the first commercial crop of its non-browning apples this autumn. Marketed under ...

[Researcher Yukiko Yamashita’s] group had been studying how fruit flies maintain their sperm supply and had engineered certain cells involved ...

Even as machines known as “deep neural networks” have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions, dream, paint pictures ...

Syngenta AG reached an in-trial settlement with a group of about 22,000 Minnesota farmers who claimed the company carelessly marketed its ...

To define human consciousness at the neuronal level is among the most difficult of tasks for neuroscience. Still, researchers have ...

The Oregon Court of Appeals has decided to keep blocking a voter-approved initiative that bans genetically engineered crops in Josephine ...