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Loneliness could drastically boost your risk of developing dementia. Genetically engineered tomatoes may be our first line of defense against ...

If you want to show that any chemical is dangerous, here's a three-step process that will consistently yield the desired ...

Can avoiding certain foods reduce your dementia risk? One nutritional psychiatrist seems to think so, but the evidence is much ...

Can traumatic life experiences leave an imprint on our DNA that we pass down to our children? Get ready, because ...

The recent campaign to "cancel" comedian Joe Rogan for promoting COVID misinformation highlights a troubling trend in science communication. High-functioning ...

The results of the USDA's Pesticide Data Program (PDP) for 2020 are in, and they lend themselves to two important ...

Hoping to keep their cause alive in the wake of the pandemic, the anti-GMO movement has glommed on to a ...

As part of the European Union, the UK was a stronghold of anti-GMO opposition. Post-Brexit, however, Britain is changing its ...

Recently I highlighted four disturbing trends in science journalism that are destroying the public's trust in mainstream academic and public health ...

We all crave sugar on occasion, and geneticists say they've found some of the genes that may have driven this ...

Organisms developed with so-called new breeding techniques (NBTs) like CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing have earned widespread support from farmers and scientists ...

A recent study quantifies some of the previously undocumented benefits of the Green Revolution. The results are nothing short of ...

Science journalism is plagued by several critical problems that jeopardize its credibility. If we want the public to be more ...

Does academic freedom protect professors who spread scientific nonsense online? The UK appears to be backtracking on a pesticide ban ...

People believe a lot of nonsense about food and farming; let's debunk the top-10 worst of these "truisms." The FDA ...

Reporters like to lecture the public about the importance of science while promoting obviously unscientific ideas when it suits them ...

YouTube triggered an uproar [recently], announcing that it would take “down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including ...

Researchers have developed a biosensor they say can monitor the activity of CRISPR gene editing in real-time. Synthetic biology is ...

The COVID-19 vaccines saved a lot of lives in 2021, but convincing some Americans to take them proved to be ...

Hoping to keep their cause alive in the wake of the pandemic, the anti-GMO movement has glommed on to a ...

With Christmas just around the corner, you're probably finalizing your dinner plans and wrapping those last few presents before sticking ...

The USDA's mandatory bioengineered food labels will begin to appear on many more products next month. What can consumers expect ...

Life goes on as gene-edited foods begin to hit the market. Japanese consumers have recently started buying tomatoes that fight ...

A recent meta-analysis has alleged that the health risks linked to chemical exposure have doubled in the last five years ...

A new at-home dementia test may help predict your risk of cognitive impairment late in life, though some experts fear ...

Does Monsanto control the seeds Mexico's farmers can grow? No, but anti-GMO groups do. An increasing number of Americans don't ...

An expert advisory panel recently revised the decades-old recommendation to take aspirin daily to prevent a first heart attack or ...

Medicine is bowing to academia's "fashionable nonsense" surrounding a variety of important issues, and the consequences could be serious. Home ...