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A panel of federal health advisers on Thursday narrowly recommended easing access to several peptides popular with wellness influencers and celebrities, despite warnings from government scientists…

Several lawmakers celebrated a vote in the European parliament approving plans to increase deportations of undocumented people. Chants of ‘send them back’ spurred other MEPs to…

Three scientific papers that raised questions about vaccine safety and were used by the Trump administration to justify controversial changes to US vaccine policies have over…

Oil has begun to flow from a controversial California pipeline system for the first time in an more than decade following a Trump administration order, despite…

[CLIP: Theme music]Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.Last February, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was sworn in as the…

The owner of Drax power plant has started reducing the amount of Canadian wood pellets it burns, and will stop burning trees from British Columbia entirely…

The University of Texas system board approved a policy Thursday that asks faculty members to “eschew topics and controversies that are not germane” to their classes.…

As NASA ramps up the preparation to send four people on a trip around the moon and back, a debate is raging among experts and former…

Researchers have created a list of indicators of toxic masculinity.Credit: GettyHow rife is the problem of ‘toxic masculinity’ in Western societies? A research study run in…

The controversial US-funded study on hepatitis B vaccines among newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been halted, according to Yap Boum, a senior official at the Africa Centres…