Science

Why the FDA banned the common food dye Red No. 3

Evidence that the synthetic dye Red No. 3 is harmful comes from studies in rats,...

Iron Age Celtic women’s social and political power just...

Ancient DNA indicates women stayed in their home communities and married partner...

2024 was Earth’s hottest year on record, passing a dang...

Global temperatures were the hottest on record in 2024; it was the first year wh...

AI could transform health care, but will it live up to ...

AI has the potential to make health care more effective, equitable and humane. W...

How child soldiers heal after the trauma of war

For more than two decades, Theresa Betancourt has studied Sierra Leone’s former ...

How people suppress memories may be key to PTSD recovery

People who recovered from PTSD changed the way their brains handle intrusive tho...

Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australi...

About 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos vanished Down Under. Dental analyses sug...

California wildfire season should be over. So why is L....

In some parts of California, fire season is now year-round due to rising heat an...

Cosmic rays could help reveal how tornadoes form

Subatomic particles called muons could measure pressure changes in supercell thu...

More new geckos have been found hiding in Southeast Asi...

Nearly 200 new gecko species found in living in karst landscapes reveal the rugg...

Poop is on the menu for a surprising number of animals

A new tally finds dozens of species giving food a second go-round, from babies b...

Is alcohol linked to cancer? Here’s what the science says

A new U.S. Surgeon General's report describes the link between drinking alcohol ...

What to know about the first bird flu–related death in ...

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causin...

AI helps doctors detect more breast cancer in the large...

AI is as good as clinicians at interpreting mammograms, a cancer study with near...

‘Forever chemicals’ are causing health problems in some...

Deformed scales in hatchlings and biomarkers indicative of disease progression a...

AI boosts breast cancer detection in nationwide screeni...

AI is as good as clinicians at interpreting mammograms, a real-world study with ...