A Nature study found plastics can contain any of more than 16,000 different chemicals, a quarter of which may pose health concerns. When burned in low-tech furnaces, researchers say the dangers multiply.
A 2024 statement signed by more than 100 academics says parental alienation "still lacks a universal clinical and scientific definition" and may be considered a pseudoscience.
Labeling science as "gold standard" can actually make it harder to communicate uncertainty honestly, Scaccia writes — because acknowledging limits may sound like backtracking rather than transparency.
Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket let users trade on elections, court decisions, and geopolitical events. A new opinion piece examines what that reframing of odds as probabilities, bets as trades, may mean for public health.
30% of educators said their students spend at least half of classroom reading time doing so digitally, per a 2023 survey. Researchers have linked heavy digital use to reduced comprehension and memory retention.
More than 9,000 high school athletes receive treatment for heat illnesses each year, per past estimates from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nine died from exertional heatstroke in 2021 alone, a record.
SIU geomorphologist Adriana Martinez, who has studied the existing Eagle Pass buoys, says she has "significant concerns" about how the larger federal buoys will behave during flooding events.
Timothy Fong, an addiction psychiatrist at UCLA, says decreasing the perceived harm of gambling-like behavior increases the likelihood of engagement — particularly among young people and those with existing vulnerabilities.
A 2025 Idaho National Laboratory report found that without the "as low as reasonably achievable" standard, nuclear workers could face up to five times more radiation exposure than current levels.
Eggs from chickens in Tropodo, Indonesia contained the second-highest dioxin level ever detected in an egg in Asia, according to research by Ecoton and partner organizations.
Different scientific questions demand different methods. Scaccia argues that branding one approach as universally superior "flattens this diversity" and misrepresents how knowledge is made.
At least 2,285 measles cases were recorded in 44 states in 2025, the worst year in more than three decades. As of late March 2026, 1,575 cases have already been reported.
Swedish officials say digital tools "should only be introduced in teaching at an age when they encourage, rather than hinder, pupils' learning." The goal, they say, is recalibration — not reversal.
Chemist Brett Pollard and colleagues found roughly 20 papers citing water safety standards attributed to the WHO and EPA that, according to the researchers, those agencies never produced.
Researchers describe a pattern: AI-generated "educational" children's videos that begin accurately, then introduce errors midway — meaning a parent who previews only the opening may not catch the misinformation.
The NIH's Sex as a Biological Variable policy, in place since 2015, was designed to address evidence that diseases and drugs can affect women and men differently. Its future is now unclear.
Insect farming's cost problem is partly structural: farmed insects require warm temperatures, and rising energy prices in Europe — home to many of the largest startups — have significantly strained operations.
A 2020 report by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society found it "difficult to envision" a method to verify, before implantation, whether all embryo cells were properly edited.
Particulate matter from wildfire smoke can cross the blood-brain barrier, where it may activate immune cells and cause inflammation — a process scientists have linked to anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
A 2025 preprint combining a deep learning model with EEG-based P300 measurement found nearly 87% accuracy under simulated challenging field conditions — but the paper is still undergoing peer review.
Kathryn Paige Harden's new book: genes can raise the risk of antisocial behavior, but no one is to blame for their genetic inheritance. "We are not just the product of nurture but have natures, too."
The Colibrí Center for Human Rights built a DNA database to identify migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Since fall 2024, its partners have been unable to access it or make new identifications.
"Federal agencies. State agencies. Multiple different federal and state agencies, all fighting with each other." A Texas project coordinator on the obstacles to controlling an invasive plant.
Three federal contracts referencing buoys and waterborne barriers in the Rio Grande total $1.22 billion. At $5.6 million per mile, the full 536-mile project could exceed $3 billion.
"Not everything that sounds scientific is a product of science" — but Ogbunu argues the converse also holds: rigorous public communication of science is itself a form of scientific practice.
In 2025 alone, approximately 320 rockets were launched globally, per a SpaceNews analysis. Researchers are studying what that means for Earth's ozone layer.
In a 2025 paper, a team found that treating inconclusive results as correct answers in firearms studies could arbitrarily skew reported error rates — a problem with real consequences in criminal cases.
"There is no such thing as gold standard science. There is only science that is well matched to its questions, conducted transparently, and interpreted with care." — Jonathan P. Scaccia