Genetic Literacy Project

The Environmental Working Group recently compared ultra-processed foods across major fast-food chains and found one conspicuous exception: Chipotle. That makes ...

In controlled safety tests described earlier this year, researchers asked AI models to solve a series of simple math problems ...

Environmental-Health Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are going through a difficult period with the decline in public funding, the increase in scrutiny ...

A mother in New York State who claims to oppose vaccines because of her Catholic faith lost an emergency appeal ...

Drugs for treating depression are among the most prescribed category of medications in the U.S. – 1 in 6 American adults ...

Medical misinformation has a peculiar advantage: it can outlive the evidence that disproves it, especially when yesterday’s contrarians become today’s ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent ...

For inexplicable reasons, the vaccine spacing debate has popped up yet again, courtesy of President Trump's executive order revisiting childhood ...

I landed on a show hosted by two women. I’ve heard people talk about it, so I gave it a ...

Two new polls reveal cracks in both US and global trust in medicine, with one showing erosion in Americans’ belief ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. “Protect our water,” “Water for people not AI,” “Don’t mess with our ...

A viral post on X claims the “largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated birth cohort study ever” found vaccinated children far sicker ...

By 2024, I was exhausted. For more than a decade, I had carried The Petri Dish through the realities of ...

A recent Mother Jones’ investigation ran under the headline “We Are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup.” The authors claim that ...

In the early 2000s, immunologist Bali Pulendran started his lab at Emory University to explore the mechanisms underlying vaccine-mediated immunity ...

A new study from the Trump administration is sending alarm bells through pro-democracy groups for its potential to fuel a ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. The Trump administration is poised to loosen environmental restrictions on oil and gas wells ...

Lab-grown, or cultivated, meat options are already a reality in select restaurants worldwide. For example, the omakase restaurant Robin in ...

If you’ve been following the dispute between Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

As long as there have been vaccines, there have been people who doubted their science and safety. Back in 19th-century ...

[On August 10, 2026], the president signed an unprecedented executive order declaring the administration’s intention to massively overhaul the vaccine ...

This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine. In the world of dietary trends, proteinmaxxing is taking a back seat ...

I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of ...

Following a White House press conference suggesting leucovorin as a treatment for autism in September 2025, and despite a lack ...

A mom in my local parent group posted last week asking whether anyone else had recently had COVID. She’d just ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Which would make you feel worse — losing $100 to a pickpocket ...

For people who love dogs but can’t escape the sneezes, hives, and watery eyes around man’s best friend, scientists may ...

President Donald Trump's newly proposed Space Force uniform has sparked comparisons to Nazi military attire as the science fiction movie ...