Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control.

As measles cases surged across the country, federal health officials repeatedly stopped short of offering an unequivocal ...

Allulose looks like sugar to a chemist but behaves rather differently inside the body. The FDA recognized that distinction ...

Shaken Baby Syndrome has increasingly been branded “junk science,” not because the medical consensus has disappeared, but ...

Antibiotic misinformation matters because unnecessary antibiotic use contributes to antimicrobial resistance and its growing ...

Social media has a habit of turning unlikely candidates into viral stars. The latest superfood to achieve stardom? Beans. On TikTok and Instagram, influencers are consuming two cups a day and ...

"Carbon monoxide" and "brain health" aren't terms normally found in the same sentence, at least not in a good way. But a ...

Can eating more fruits and vegetables keep breast cancer from coming back? A multimillion-dollar study involving more than ...

A fake disease, complete with absurd clues and a fictional laboratory aboard the USS Enterprise, was enough to fool AI ...

Autumn starts today, which means nature's annual leaf-color extravaganza is about to begin. This article is not as deadly ...

Vitamins are essential to life, though their discovery was anything but straightforward. It took sick sailors, chickens with ...

A recent article explained that one of the dangers of lithium-ion battery fires is the release of hydrogen fluoride. Now, hydrofluoric acid, which is HF dissolved in water, has killed a student in ...