Jennifer Pomeranz discusses a decades-old loophole for putting new ingredients into the country's food supply.

Results from two major studies suggest tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are now at risk.

The pharmacologist gathered more than 60 researchers to push back on the retraction of a Monsanto-linked research paper.

Suzanne Simard's "When the Forest Breathes" is steeped in grief over the juggernaut of the modern logging industry.

Many view parental alienation syndrome as a harmful and pseudoscientific concept. Why does an academic debate persist?

There’s a vast difference between schools that have money and schools that don’t,” said LaComb, a senior at Lake Buena Vista High School and Florida state representative on the National Student ...

In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks.

Implemented a decade ago, the Sex as a Biological Variable policy, or SABV, addressed an important shortcoming: Evidence had shown that diseases and drugs can in some instances affect women and men ...

When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years. The government had deemed him trustworthy through his career in the Army. But ...

In 2015, Peter Stout, head of the Houston Forensic Science Center, began administering a test that was designed to not look like a test. Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the ...