In November, The Lancet, one of the world's most esteemed medical journals, launched a new monthly series of case studies that goes beyond clinical diagnoses to illuminate the social and cultural ...

A flagship study that declared the weedkiller Roundup posed no serious health risks has been retracted with little fanfare, ...

The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

A new article published in Nature Communications offers insight into how government planners can better account for the many ...

Abstract: Quantum computing is emerging as a significant threat to information protected by widely used cryptographic systems. Cryptographic methods, once deemed secure for decades, are now at risk of ...

But this case troubles me precisely because it validates the conservative complaints about higher education that I usually ...

The scientific journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has issued a rare retraction of one of the most cited studies on the safety of the pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in the ...

Mental illness is typically defined by its challenges, but growing evidence shows it is also linked to surprising strengths.

This is the second of two papers (and accompanying technical Annexes) from the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research Ethiopia country case study. Using five waves of Ethiopian Socioeconomic ...

A recent study suggests that US pulp and paper mills could reach net zero emissions by switching from natural gas to electric and biomass power, alongside improvements in energy efficiency. The ...

Alleged AI-generated legal papers “rife” with references to irrelevant, misquoted and non-existent rulings which were filed by a Ryanair flight attendant in a €170,000 discrimination claim were “an ...