Bills in four states require state environmental regulations to show “direct causal link” to “manifest bodily harm,” not just increased risk of disease. Scientists say that’s all but impossible.

Manuel Suter receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Postdoc Mobility Fellowship: P500PS_225579) and is a member of the organisation "Degrowth Switzerland". Imagine someone has ...

Agencies will have to show a “direct causal link” to “manifest bodily harm,” not just an increased risk of disease.

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IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...

You might have a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time, but research shows that urban wildlife may stand to benefit ...

More than 300 people braved minus-20-degree windchills and numerous roadways impacted by snowdrifts and limited visibility ...

There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...

As federal funding cuts affect environmental programs, students discuss how they secured research positions and internships.

Eighth grade earth science students at Woodland Middle School in East Meadow recently stepped into the role of scientists, ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

In a new co-authored book, Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger points out some surprising facts about how memories work Explaining the science behind memory and ...