A new report by the Dutch government states something we've known all along: Genetically modified mosquitoes are safe to use to combat the spread of viral infections. Although critics may still think that the modification process is scary, they have nothing to worry about. Besides, the Zika virus is much, much scarier.

Corporations aren’t all evil, and universities are not all saints. Most products are coming from industry work. Meanwhile, plenty of junk science comes from universities – and sometimes even from Boston's most prestigious academic institution.

The national media is alive with the report; coffee intake is good for you! And evidently, the more the better. The data, of course, is a bit more – shall we say – nuanced.

In 2010, the profit for Elsevier, one of the world' leading publishers of technical, medical and scientific information, was 36 percent of its revenue – which exceeded Google's, Apple's and Amazon's. How did Elsevier do it? The company made use of a simple business model developed by Robert Maxwell.  
 
 
 
 

To stay in business, media outlets need viewers. So they give readers what they want, which apparently consists largely of pointless political bickering, epic acts of stupidity and naked people.

The disease is one of the top 10 causes of death in the world. It currently infects roughly 1.5 billion people. But researchers from Cornell University are focusing on the critically important need to develop new drugs to fight TB.

Given the refreshing, restorative benefits of sleep, a question that recently emerged in the scientific community is: Since memory tends to fade with age, if we could help older adults sleep better would that help improve and protect their memory? 

An international team of medical experts recently published a global call to action in an effort to curb the unethical, unsubstantiated use of stem-cell based therapies driving medical tourism. When greed trumps science, we all lose. 

Researchers have figured out how to accurately measure "a fundamental physical property" in THC, pot's primary active ingredient. This scientific achievement, never achieved before they say, lays the "technical groundwork for manufacturers to develop accurate devices" to measure impairment while driving.

In the 1980s, a case of gonorrhea would have been easily treated with a course of antibiotics. Today, this is not the case. An announcement by the World Health Organization calls attention to the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in Neiserria gonorrheae – the bacteria that causes this sexually transmitted disease.