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Specific data about H5N1 outbreaks on farms has generally been deemed confidential by state and federal officials.
President Trump’s push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation, but experts say that strategy is misplaced.
In a shift of longstanding precedent, political priorities may now override peer review in research funding decisions.
People in recovery from eating disorders and OCD increasingly seek support from coaches, but some experts are wary.
How far should the AAP go to disclose potential conflicts of interest in guidelines and other official recommendations?
Editor’s Note: The original version of this article failed to disclose that some of the quoted critics of orthodontics have financial ties to alternative, direct-to-consumer therapies. While the ...
Every day, Jerry Grabarek looks out for a plume of smoke a couple miles from his dairy farm. Grabarek, a 73-year-old from Preston, Connecticut, can’t always see the plume. Some days are too rainy. Or ...
Around a decade ago, a patient in the Netherlands went to his doctor with a request for euthanasia. He was in his 40s, suffering from depression and psychosis, and haunted by feelings of despair, ...
The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid — a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri — was jolted awake.
Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Should we run outdoor geoengineering experiments? Geoengineering — intentionally altering the planet’s climate to ...
Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...