Words matter in national dietary guidance—especially technical ones. In the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, ...

Why do some people get goosebumps from a song while others hear the exact same notes…and feel nothing? New research reveals ...

One year ago, Los Angeles experienced one of the most destructive urban wildfire disasters in its history. The fires consumed more than 55,000 acres, destroyed nearly 16,000 homes, and claimed ...

Climate change plaintiffs now claim that greenhouse gases are causing property damage through fire, flood, and frost, ...

Fruit flies’ exposure to radiation from the basis of modern federal radiation directives, the debate over how we calculate ...

Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic endocrine-disrupting chemicals are often cast as the primary culprits, puberty is ...

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that your daily caffeine fix might be ...

Newly published data indicate a quiet shift in hospital nurseries that may signal a broader change in how Americans view ...

Constipation is often treated as a simple plumbing problem, too little movement, too much delay. But emerging research suggests that, in some people, the culprit may not be sluggish muscles or faulty ...

Obviously, there was no era in which Americans were healthier than now, except in a romanticized imagination. Is there really ...

On this episode of Science Dispatch, we take a look at the radiation oncology experience from the perspective of a patient (and radiation expert) who endured 28 mornings of this common but ...

One of the universal challenges in human knowledge is translating what is deeply felt and implicitly understood into ...