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The Food and Drug Administration is poised to kill a proposed rule that would require testing for toxic asbestos in talc-based cosmetics, a problem that has…

Patrick Vallance, the minister for science, research and innovation, recently unveiled a plan to cut animal testing through greater use of AI and other technologies, with…

Education savings accounts, tax-credit scholarships, vouchers, charter schools, home schooling, tutoring, course choice, dual degrees, and microschools are transforming K–12. In “Talking Choice,” Ashley Berner and…

new video loaded: Testing Wool Coats In a Walk-in Fridge1:00When style writer Nicola Fumo realized she’d need to test wool coats before it got too cold…

Science is a slaughterhouse. We rarely acknowledge the degree to which animal life underwrites the research that provides us with medicines, or the regulation that keeps us…

Animal testing in science would be phased out faster under a new plan to increase the use of artificial intelligence and 3D bioprinted human tissues, a…

new video loaded: Trump Threatens to Resume Nuclear TestingtranscriptBacktranscriptTrump Threatens to Resume Nuclear TestingOn Wednesday, President Trump threatened to resume testing nuclear weapons again after more…

A polarized debate in biomedical research is pitting those who favour ‘traditional animal models’ — meaning living non-human mammals, such as mice, that are used to…

Collections of human cells generated from different sources can be used to test new drugs. Credit: Lewis Houghton/SPLWhen it comes to evaluating drugs or understanding basic…

These are the other coolers we’ve tested with our new testing procedure, detailed below. They didn’t make the cut for the main list, but that doesn’t…