Decades ago, Velveeta had to be labeled “Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product" so that customers could have truth in labeling. It was not "cheese", said the government.  The U.S. Federal Trade…

Smoking kills, there is no question on that, but as the smoking rate began to drop and the settlement with cigarette companies due to expire, trial lawyers turned to secondhand smoke as a new target…

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If you are a soldier, you may believe the worst thing that can happen is being shot. There is no upside to it, you are wounded or die. A new psychology paper says soldiers who've actually been shot…

Fibromyalgia is an ill-defined chronic pain condition and claims around the gut microbiome are the latest craze in science-y sounding speculation about lots of health issues, following the fad of…

"Lebensraum" said German Chancellor Adolf Hitler when he appealed to citizens for why they needed to expand.  A new computer simulation says climate change may have been a factor, and it could…

https://www.sciencecodex.com/study-finds-collaborating-business-contribu... nteraction between universities and companies in Brazil has societal, economic and environmental impacts, as well as…

A paper from academics says that the final goal of the Affordable Care Act - Medicare For All - won't lead to more hospital stays. This is in defiance of data during ACA, where it led to higher costs…

Economic losses from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and 76 wildfires in nine Western states could total nearly $300 billion in damage and if you believe those fires would not have happened without…

Ancient pigs went through a complete genomic turnover after they arrived in Europe, according to a new study. They were domesticated in the Near East and logically would genetically resemble the Near…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told California it must remove glyphosate cancer warnings from pesticide labels, saying the state’s Prop 65 labeling requirement for products with…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told California it must remove glyphosate cancer warnings from pesticide labels, saying the state’s Prop 65 labeling requirement for products with…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is again warning consumers not to purchase, much less drink, a supplement drink sold as a medical treatment that goes by all kinds of interesting names, from…

Millennials can't be blamed for lower alcohol consumption, that's just smart health thinking. But they are a barometer of future drinking habits. Across all age groups, around 40 percent of 1,166 U.S…

Millennials can't be blamed for lower alcohol consumption, that's just smart health thinking. But they are a barometer of future drinking habits. Across all age groups, around 40 percent of 1,166 U.S…

Raw dairy is diarrhea and vomiting waiting to happen, there is a reason heat pasteurization is credited with saving a billion lives, but a company in Australia has used a legal loophole to milk raw…

Ever since telescopes were first invented, by some dutch lens grinder in the late XVIth century, and then demonstrated to be invaluable tools for investigating the cosmos around us by Galileo Galilei…

Europe, the market that once wanted to ban lower cost "ugly" fruit because it looked discriminatory against poor people, while ignoring how much food waste and resulting environmental strain their…

Europe, the market that once wanted to ban lower cost "ugly" fruit because it looked discriminatory against poor people, while ignoring how much food waste and resulting environmental strain their…

Until about 8,000 years ago, the British Isles were instead a peninsula attached to mainland Europe by a now-submerged world archaeologists call Doggerland. As the Ice Age ended, sea levels rose and…