Something strange and potentially frightening is going on at a Russian laboratory in Siberia. One or more scientists have ...

The media recently pushed alarming headlines claiming the EPA gutted clean-air rules by rolling back power plant greenhouse ...

How many cookies are too many? A new meta-analysis links greater consumption of ultra-processed foods to several chronic ...

Daubert was meant to keep unreliable science out of the courtroom by making judges gatekeepers who ensure the reliability and relevance of expert testimony and the underlying research. A recent Second ...

Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control.

From cancer and cannabis to perverse research incentives, we’ve been busy confronting nonsense. Here’s a roundup of recent ...

Few things are more comforting than a hot cup of coffee or tea on a cold day. But what if the heat that makes the drink so enjoyable also increases your risk of cancer? Nowadays, it seems like ...

Eighteen months ago, I asked whether anti-vaccine rhetoric and a retreat from infectious-disease preparedness might open the ...

"Carbon monoxide" and "brain health" aren't terms normally found in the same sentence, at least not in a good way. But a ...

Allulose looks like sugar to a chemist but behaves rather differently inside the body. The FDA recognized that distinction ...

Shaken Baby Syndrome has increasingly been branded “junk science,” not because the medical consensus has disappeared, but ...