North of Greenland, in the far reaches of Earth’s frostier regions, the ocean is typically rock solid. It’s an area so cold it’s always a glittery landscape of ice, even through the lazy summer months.
European health officials are on high alert as the number of clinically-confirmed measles cases across the continent passed 23,500 in the first six months of the year.
Two of the largest American seed companies are spearheading an effort to have the US government limit the seasons in which farmers can spray dicamba, a controversial Monsanto weed-killing chemical, onto their crops.
Once they got into the laboratory, the scientists didn’t hold back.
Marine-life carcasses are washing ashore in a dramatic red scare that has prompted Florida’s governor to declare an official state of emergency.
Three of the globe’s most ardent anti-tobacco groups are joining forces, part of new effort to create a one-stop shop to monitor the tobacco industry, its lobbying tactics, and its marketing strategies.
Scientists in the UK have learned that male starlings, known for their gregariousness, sing less at female counterparts doped up on the antidepressant fluoxetine, better known by its brand name Prozac.
No one’s sure how the longhorned bloodsucker got to America, nor what havoc it might wind up causing there. But scientists across several US states are sounding the alarm about the proliferation of this invasive tick.
The US recall of the drug valsartan—common in medicines used to control blood pressure—has gone global.
The surprising truth about cake is that it’s astonishingly inefficient.
The US government has issued a food-safety alert warning people that several lines of contaminated salad products may have gotten into some of the country’s largest grocery chains.
Scientists working on ways to combat dangerous cancers are exploring a treatment path that may wind up being as simple as feeling happy thoughts.
The American meat industry today sent a letter to the White House, appealing directly to the president to clarify the regulatory future of high-tech, cell-cultured meats.
A new report published by the National Institute for Health and Research in the UK shows the long-term effects of taking omega-3 pills doesn’t stack up to the hype.
Donald Trump is preparing a $12-billion financial aid package geared at reducing the damage his own trade policies are inflicting on American farmers. Details of the plan are scant, but the package is expected to be rolled out in September.
The world’s biggest meat and dairy operations combined pump more greenhouse gas into Earth’s warming atmosphere than any one of the largest fossil-fuel giants.
The US Food and Drug Administration is recalling some medicines commonly used to help control blood pressure because batches of it may contain a chemical that’s used to induce cancer in lab rats.
There’s a turf war unfolding between two US federal agencies, both of which claim to have the authority to regulate high-tech, cell-cultured meat companies.
Using strategic maneuvering decried by public health advocates, the soda industry has scored a political win in California that will stop cities and towns there from adopting soda taxes.
Thanks to regular people turning their gaze to the sky, researchers can now definitively call out crows for what they are: plumed bullies.
A new study out of Italy shows children raised by same-sex couples are as psychologically well-adjusted—if not slightly more—than children raised by heterosexual couples.
Quartz is being bought by a Tokyo-based media company seeking to expand its global footprint.
The transatlantic alliance might be fracturing, much of Puerto Rico is still without electricity, and the Rohingya continue to be the target of unspeakable human-rights abuse—but rest assured, the business school at Ohio State University has been hard at work figuring out that people just might get more joy out of life if they ate popcorn with a pair of chopsticks.
A new report published this week by the United Nations shows global cocaine production is on the rise, reversing a long downturn in coca-plant cultivation that had started in 2000.
