Heroes aren't always cops, soldiers or scientists. Sometimes they are the wives of scientists. Here's one worth remembering.

Making smart choices requires correct information. But it's not so easy telling facts from fiction, especially since there's a whole lot of money being made by those spreading misinformation. What's more dangerous, sun or sunscreen? Pot. or the plastic container it's stored in? Want to know how to tell? Read this.

A new study in Nature Sustainability confirms what we've been saying for a long time: Organic farms produce fewer crops and are worse for the environment. Don't build more of them.

The European Union has decided to burn more wood to offset the increases in emissions that will be caused by closing nuclear plants. It's doing so because wood is renewable. While that sounds great, the problem is that burning wood is still combustion, which in this case is more harmful than CO2 emissions from coal.

The siren song of precision medicine is lost in the translation, from the laboratory to the bedside. Two studies suggest that precision medicine is more an aspirational term than reality.

The deliberate and malicious ignorance of the anti-GMO movement must be resoundingly defeated, with its lies tossed into the dustbin of history.

It's time to recognize and champion the invaluable, grueling work of neonatal nurses.

This study shows that the crisis in overdose deaths is, unfortunately, not new. It goes back nearly 40 years. Three graphs reveal a tapestry over time of drugs, demographics and geography. It's not simply a new problem due to prescription drugs.

There are two ways that the media get meta-analysis claims wrong. And here's how to spot them.

Caravaggio famously painted various biblical scenes, such as the beheadings of John the Baptist, Holofernes and Goliath. Though the artist did not meet such a violent demise in the early 17th century, he may have suffered an unpleasant one: Sepsis due to Staphylococcus aureus.