Real Clear Science

Through our eyes, the world is revealed. But can our eyes also reveal ourselves? In particular, the pupil, the black ...

The national movement to eradicate what activists call systemic racism and white privilege from medicine and health care has few ...

[Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson has] repeatedly mangled and misrepresented the science on gender dysphoria and transgender youth. ... "There ...

VR sex simulation is not the same as porn. The term “VR porn” is therefore somewhat misleading. When viewing photos ...

Pork is now the most widely eaten meat in the world. At the same time, owing to the creation of novel, smaller ...

E-15 is only available at about 2 to 3% of gas stations in the United States, so for those unaware, it means ...

As a happily married family man and a successful neuroscientist at the University of California-Irvine, [James] Fallon didn't exactly fit ...

In a recent paper published to the Archives of Sexual Behavior, [professor of media psychology and design Nicola] Döring explored a few of ...

As humans, we know we [are conscious] but haven't a clue how it arises. It's a facet of intelligent life ...

As someone who has spent years doing research in health geography, I understand that this collective turn to cleanliness serves ...

Somewhere around two million Americans suffer from opioid-related substance use disorder. Treatments like buprenorphine and methadone calm the brain circuits affected by opioids, reducing ...

The traditional view is that species have increased in diversity continuously over the past 200 million years, particularly in the last ...

Tuberculosis is responsible for as many as one billion deaths in the last 200 years alone, but its murderous history ...

In a new case report, Turkish doctors from Dokuz Eylul University present a curious case of drug intoxication mimicking brain ...

An outside-the-box theory received new attention in an extensive study published [June 21] to the journal Neuron. Researchers based out of the Icahn ...

[T]axonomy – the science of classifying organisms – would be so much easier if life forms came with barcodes… Interestingly enough, ...

In just 13 years, brain training has sprouted from a fledgling industry to a behemoth projected to be worth as much ...

In the 1990s, biologist Robin Baker put forth the idea that a significant proportion of human sperm are not actually capable of ...

If the food industry and government cannot come to a consensus about what is a GMO and what isn’t, labeling ...

Nearly twenty years ago, researchers began noticing a curious paradox in health-focused studies: despite common wisdom that being overweight or obese is ...

Darwin’s original ideas about sexual selection were based largely on males competing for mates, either by fighting among themselves or ...

A new analysis published in the International Journal of Food Contamination shows that pesticide residues in food are at levels ...

The Earth is brimming with life, and within that life, is information, stored in strands of deoxyribonucleic acid: DNA. This ...

Arguably, the most important enzyme ever discovered was found in a bacterium that lived in one of Yellowstone's hot springs ...

Dear Dr. Oz, As a TV host, book author, and "America's Doctor," you hold a powerful and privileged position to ...

Last week, just days after I wrote a very critical article skewering Whole Foods for lying to all of its customers about ...

The organic food market is estimated at $63 billion globally, with more than half of those sales occuring in the United States ...