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The world of cooking oils is confusing. I keep spotting new ones on supermarket shelves, trumpeting their health claims. Cold-pressed avocado oil, extra virgin macadamia oil,…

Swinney says SNP would set maximum prices for essential food items, using public health powers, on nutrition groundsSwinney says people are struggling to afford food. That…

Perhaps one of the reasons that conversations about infertility are so difficult is that people are often encountering the experience for the first time without a…

We live in uncertain and unstable times. The job market is contracting due to economic uncertainty, political instability and the increase of AI-driven automation. In my…

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be…

Twice as many older Australians than young adults believe the world cannot do anything to prevent the worst effects of our rapidly heating climate, according to…

November 18, 20252 min readFive Essential Reads on Plastic, Power, and PollutionIf you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more…

Plastics overwhelmingly end up in the ocean or at landfill sites.Credit: Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket/GettyIn August, the world should have been celebrating the first global agreement to end…

October 17, 20252 min readWhy Aluminum in Vaccines Is Safe—And Often EssentialThe FDA wants to reevaluate the use of aluminum adjuvants despite a long record of…

AI chatbots are like students who don’t do the reading and raise their hand anyway.A new paper from researchers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, finds…