A decision requiring cellphone retailers to warn customers of possible radiation risk typifies the emotion-based way that democracy can supersede intelligent government risk policy-making.
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The number of new cases of cancer worldwide is rising. The death rate from cancer worldwide is dropping. What do these conflicting numbers tell us about the challenge of making sense of just how risky it is out there?
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Jim Gilliam tells how the Internet saved his life — literally! — and how unprecedented connectivity is shifting the global community in chaotic, exciting ways.
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Each day, each of us faces 500 billion opportunities for genetic civil war to break out. Thankfully we’ve also evolved good ways to police and suppress these rogue parts, their mutinous mutations, and their declarations of independence.
Most reporting about risk hypes the danger but doesn’t provide all the information the reader needs to put the actual threat in perspective. So when balanced risk reporting shows up, it should be praised.
There is a lot of hypocrisy in the way Naomi Oreskes attacks four renowned climate scientists.
Although it seems savvy to defer to “the data,” the devil is in the mixed details. For example, humans on average have one testicle and one ovary.
Nuclear weapons do horrific widespread damage. Nuclear radiation, even at high doses, does not. But fear of radiation does. We have the survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to thank for these lessons. We should honor their suffering by remembering both.
The trouble with productivity as a value is that it treats a morally ambiguous act as a moral good. What, specifically, do we want to be producing more of?
Life on Earth may not be the only way. But could it be this different? This article is written by Jillian Scudder, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Sussex in the […]
Scientists have discovered a new protein that appears to supercharge the body’s own immune system, allowing it to compete against cancerous cells in ways that were previously impossible.
NYU’s Dr. Nicole Foubister chats with us about the two-faced nature of bipolar disorder.
Recent data suggests there are some health benefits from adding a little spice to your foods.
Researchers have found apples and green tea hold a chemical compound that may help block the signaling of certain processes involved in caner progression.
In the United States, the FDA has the power to fine drug companies $10,000 a day for failing to publish clinical trials, yet most clinical trials still never see the light of day.
A new, poisonous treatment may be the best way to save the endangered species.
Journalists often hype the most alarming aspects of the news. In the process, they sometimes create and reinforce common fears that far exceed the actual danger.
Cancer’s scars aren’t just physical. Sufferers and survivors alike must battle on a separate front to combat the effects of depression and mental illness.
Researchers show how the pace of aging varies from person to person, and how chronological age is irrelevant when treating diseases—it’s biological age we should be concentrating on.
“We need to go back to the discovery, to posing a question, to having a hypothesis and having kids know that they can discover the answers and can peel away a layer.”
Culturally and economically, modern Turkey is at a dangerous crossroads.
If every great story is a journey, then few are more in need of a road map than True Detective.
A UK hospital hopes the device will help patients manage their medication and track their symptoms.
While we usually associate yoga with flexibility-inspired exercise, evidence shows a lack of psychedelic mushroom tea could lie at the foundation of this discipline.
Researchers at Chongqing University in China have created an ultra-sensitive device capable of detecting volatile organic compounds in people’s breath that may indicate the presence of cancer.
“30 years after, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are bustling cities. 30 years after Chernobyl, abandoned city. What’s the difference?”
Vilhelm Hammershøi’s tranquil, yet unsettling interiors make him the most influential artist you’ve never heard of.