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When I was five or so, my father bought a telescope; he put it together and, that night, we took it into the backyard – I don’t remember the first thing we looked at but, when I looked through the eyepiece during the evening and saw Saturn floatin

Why does Canadian ketchup contain sugar and US ketchup high fructose corn syrup?

For some, freedom is without constraints; for the "creatives," constraint is a necessary component in freeing their creative energies. 

In the Northeast, people with allergies had a miserable spring.

The Vogtle plants will be the first of the advanced AP1000 reactor designs to be built in the US (another two – Turkey Point 3 and 4 – are still in the planning stage, and there are six AP1000 reactors that have come online in China since 2018).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming the focus of societal debate and discussion following the emergence last November of ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer) – a “chatbo

Here at ACSH, we try our best to cover as many of the timely, important issues as possible. 

Evolution by natural selection suggests that organisms adapt to their environments.

At ACSH, we spent a fair amount of time debunking misleading, misinformed science and policy. We have been at it for over 40 years.

The FDA is the nation’s most ubiquitous regulatory agency, responsible for overseeing products – drugs, medical devices, tobacco products, and most foods -- that account for about 20 cents of every dollar consumers spend.  It is currently goi