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The FDA and HHS plan to eliminate petroleum-based food dyes as part of the MAHA agenda. What does science say about their ...

Astronomers found a supernova whose lighter outer layers had been stripped away, revealing an inner shell rich in silicon and ...

Science journalist Tom Zeller Jr. has suffered from debilitating cluster headaches for three decades. Like other cluster ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually ...

Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

Neurologist Bruce Dobkin started hearing a phantom choir singing on a loop after he received a cochlear implant. He’s not the ...

Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

August 15, 2025 This year marks the 100th anniversary of two papers that sparked the field of quantum mechanics. Plus, a science journalist documents his quest to understand his own cluster headaches ...

The late James Lovell was commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. In 1995, he recounted the story of the real-life ...

“Edward Jenner Advising a Farmer to Vaccinate His Family.” Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1910. Iconographic Collections/ Wellcome Images / CC BY 4.0 The word vaccine, and vaccination, ...

The color isn’t olo, but it’s a decently close approximation. Credit: Shutterstock Think about the colors of the world around you—the blue of a cloudless sky, the green of a new leaf, the blazing red ...