ast March, Mexican President Lopez Obrador announced he was indefinitely postponing a scheduled April 1 ban of the herbicide glyphosate. It gravely disappointed advocacy environmentalists. They blamed pressure from the United States government doing the bidding of the agricultural industry. Glyphosate will remain the herbicide of choice for Mexican farmers, the government said, until it … Read more

Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear that some scientists have raised, citing a stark rise in suspicious AI shibboleths showing up in published papers.

A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge.

For decades, some doctors have told women that the brain fog, insomnia and mood swings they experience in midlife are “all in their heads.” Now, emerging brain research shows they’re right — but not because women are imagining it.

What if, instead of eating crickets or cell-cultured meat, we relied on an everyday raw material to put food on our plates?

Martian soil differs significantly from Earth’s—it lacks essential nutrients, contains perchlorates (a toxic chemical), and is highly alkaline. These factors make it inhospitable for most plant life.

Ghana’s apex human rights court has dismissed an interlocutory injunction application brought against [the] National Biosafety Authority (NBA) by Food Sovereignty Ghana and others regarding the approval of 14 genetically modified crops for planting and consumption in the country.

eporters, alt-health gurus and even some scientists warn consumers to avoid so-called “ultra-processed foods.” These cheap, convenient products–loaded with sugar, salt, fat and a variety of preservatives–are carefully engineered to keep you coming back for more even though they’re uniquely harmful to human health. It’s a scandalous story—and it’s mostly nonsense, says immunologist and microbiologist … Read more

Bringing together researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the University of São Paulo in Brazil, we evaluated different types of pig farming – including woodland, Organic, free range, RSPCA assured, Red tractor certified and those farms producing pork with no labelling – to assess each system’s comparative impact across four areas: land use (representing biodiversity loss), greenhouse gas emissions, antibiotic use and animal welfare.

By now, almost everyone knows people who have had COVID. Although most recover within a few days or weeks, it has killed almost 1.2 million Americans (with the weekly death toll still in the hundreds); and even those with mild infections can experience “long COVID,” marked by persistent, sometimes debilitating, symptoms that last for months or even years following the acute infection.