As a children’s specialist, I want to caution parents regarding the emerging use of small interfering RNA (siRNA) technology, particularly in therapeutic contexts potentially applicable to infants and young children

Almost eight in 10 new electric cars are being sold at a discount as the industry reels from falling consumer demand

Early in Biden’s disaster-laden term, his Environmental Protection Agency proposed economy-crushing liberty-limiting rules that would theoretically eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s electricity sector by 2040

Recent research has shed light on benefits of the ketogenic diet, extending beyond epilepsy and mental health to conditions like chronic pain

Multiple media outlets, including the BBC and Reuters, claim that a recent West African heatwave would be “impossible” without global warming. This claim is misleading and not supported by real-world data

The number of pupils suspended from British schools has reached a record high as experts warn that bad behaviour has increased as a result of lockdown school closures

Up to half the excess deaths in American nursing homes were due to the impact of lockdowns and mitigation measures on frail residents rather than the virus. That’s the conclusion of epidemiologist Professor Eyal Shahar in a new analysis of a study on U.S. nursing home deaths

The vegan diet is low in – or, in some cases, entirely devoid of – several important brain nutrients. Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans’ abilities to think?

This is due to the changing solar activity, explains Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University

When I was a kid living on a small dairy farm in Queensland, we relied on green energy – horses and human muscles provided most motive power; fire-wood and beeswax candles supplied heat and light; a windmill pumped water and the sun provided solar energy for drying clothes and growing crops, vegies and pastures

When it comes to its connection to the sky, Stonehenge is best known for its solar alignments

The provenance of asteroid Kamo’oalewa, discovered in 2016, is something of a mystery, but astronomers believe it may be a chunk of the Moon. A new analysis has even identified the crater from which it may have been gouged

The recently published Cass Review found that ‘gender medicine’ is ‘built on shaky foundations’ and recommended against surgical or pharmaceutical intervention for ‘gender-confused’ children

“It’s like we were an idiot country,” the late Dwayne Andreas, longtime CEO of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., once told me, referring to some systematically self-defeating policy out of Washington

New population-level data on the vaccination programme from the Czech Republic, collected from 2.2 million individual health records, have been analysed by Fürst et al and their analysis has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases (the pre-publication date on the article is May 20241)

The waters off of California’s North Coast have long been prized for their abundant fisheries and wild natural beauty