Marijuana contains more than 500 active compounds. But most people focus on two: There’s cannabidiol, or CBD, which reduces inflammation. It tells your brain you’re hungry, and makes food smell and ...

The Trump administration is freezing, delaying and revoking funding for dementia research, setting back discoveries of ...

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The National Science Foundation, which funds key science and engineering research, is the latest U.S. agency to be disrupted ...

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Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

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Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

Ryan F. Lei is an associate professor of psychology at Haverford College. He has a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern ...

Willie Peijnenburg is at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, 2230 RA Leiden, the Netherlands, and is also at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Centre ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, struck an alarmist tone about new findings that ...