After all, it’s clear that many Americans feel disengaged from science or democracy or both. One reason may be that they blame science and technology for causing or failing to solve big problems, from ...

Beavers and the dams they build are not always embraced in the areas where they do their work. But there's a growing ...

Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and also leads President Donald Trump’s DOGE group, which aims to make drastic cuts to ...

The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.

Environmentalists are worried the state — known for a lax approach to regulation — is not prepared for the added responsibility of regulating certain carbon capture projects.

Research Policy Director Elizabeth Baker from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national medical ethics and health advocacy group of 17,000 physicians, spoke today, Feb. 6, at a ...

It has been more than three years since Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a major climate change plan to usher in solar and wind energy and phase out polluting, planet-warming coal and natural gas. Yet ...

But experts say the regulator needs to reevaluate the safety of other food dyes too. Data suggests that dyes impact child ...

Just how much change is up to the Legislature, which has a handful of bills to consider; most seeking additional sideboards ...

It’s there for cosmetic reasons, and so it's not strictly necessary." How worried should you be about caramel color? Here's ...

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in many common foods — here's what you need to know about its safety.

On January 16, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an order banning FD&C Red No.3 in food and ingested drugs.1 Food and ingested ...