Let’s be clear: Epstein’s crimes were reprehensible. His influence on the world of science was also corrosive. But the case lays bare the realities of power and patronage that have been true for ...

In other developments, the EPA launches a group to coordinate its PFAS work, and the UN plastics treaty committee has a new head ...

Scientists don’t indulge their musical proclivities only through their lab work. Many are also musicians. Although rock and rollers like chemistry Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi often get the ...

Matthew Fuchter, who develops novel molecular systems at the University of Oxford, calls this “an exciting study [that] ...

Food chains in the coral reefs of the Caribbean are up to 70% shorter today than in the past, and fish living there have a ...

Andrew Oddy looks back on his career as Keeper of Conservation at the British Museum and the exposure test that bears his name ...

Overbuilding and tepid demand have led to tough market conditions for petrochemical producers around the world. Learn about ...

The advocacy group the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has already announced it will fight the EPA’s final rule on the endangerment finding. “EDF will challenge this decision in court, where evidence ...

This reassessment of BHA is the first in a larger post-market review program for food chemicals started by the Joe Biden ...

On Feb. 10, pharmaceutical company Moderna announced that the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) had refused to review its application to market an investigational mRNA-based flu ...

By far the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease is a variant of apolipoprotein E, or ApoE. People who carry ...

In the software realm, agentic AI models, platforms that can serve as assistants for researchers, also stood out. Executives ...