Political events can take a serious toll on mental health - at least in one case. A man with a brief episode of acute psychosis convinced a doctor it was triggered by the 2016 Referendum on Brexit--…

Placebo controls are a gold standard against which new treatments are often measured. If a new treatment consistently proves to be better than a placebo and safe, it can be marketed, sold and…

A few years ago, France's International Agency for Research on Cancer, a United Nations body with a checkered scientific and ethical history, used statistics to suggest that red meat was bad for…

An ocean heat uptake paper published in Nature has been retracted, and it is a credit to the authors for pulling it, but it's also an indictment of the kind of insular culture that corporate peer…

In 2006, a tiny brown pebble, equivalent to a raisin, sold at auction for $25,000. This inconsequential artifact was, in fact, William Shatner’s kidney stone. The US actor had persuaded doctors to…

Union of Concerned Scientists is only really in top form when a Republican is in the White House because when the GOP is in control, they can be angry outsiders, but when a Democrat is in control, a…

Media are framing the reappearance of a "Spanish" Stonehenge dating back 7,000 years as a harbinger of climate change drought, and while there is plenty of reason to be concerned about emissions,…

Malaria is an infectious disease causing more than 400,000 deaths per year predominantly among children and pregnant women. While the disease originates in sub-Saharan Africa and various tropical…

This is another scary headline that doesn’t mean what it seems to mean from the titles. We do not risk a world without the conker tree and there is no way it can go extinct. After all it is easy to…

Award winning wines tend to have high ethanol and sugar levels. according to a recent paper in the Journal of Wine Research that sought to know what characteristics were prevalent in the wines that…