A failed private lawsuit accusing major food companies of engineering addictive food has been resurrected by San Francisco’s city attorney, recasting contested nutrition science as a public nuisance.

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Hedy Lamarr’s legacy extends far beyond Hollywood glamour. Behind the screen persona was an inventive mind that helped ...

At a moment when ultra-processed foods, industrial agriculture, and food subsidies are under political siege, can a New York ...

Recent research suggests that regular omega-3 intake from supplements is linked to a modest reduction in cardiovascular ...

How much of our lifespan is written in our genes, and how much is sitting on our plates? A new analysis suggests that while ...

With the EPA launching a new toxicity review and the MAHA movement claiming fluoride is a hidden health menace, the battle lines are being redrawn between public health orthodoxy and rising political ...

Red light therapy has gone from dermatology clinics to the wellness world, promising everything from younger-looking skin and ...

Statins have been blamed for everything short of causing bad hair days—especially by the alternative-medicine crowd, who ...

Two women in California are unhappy about phosphates and carrageenan in Costco’s rotisserie chicken. I’m fine with them—by ...

On this episode of Science Dispatch, we dive into the latest Kīlauea eruption and the alarming chemistry behind the air ...

When health insurance becomes conditional and unaffordable, it doesn’t just disappear from balance sheets—it vanishes from ...