Tag: government

Our food safety system has enough leaks when operating at full speed. Take the latest Romaine lettuce scares, for example.  Some people are really...

More than $30 billion of taxpayer money goes into biomedical research each year. But billions of funding also comes from industries who stand to...

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) and other divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told late last...

Deep in the Amazon, a group of uncontacted, categorized Indigenous tribespeople were foraging for food along a river bank. Then they ran into miners....

The universe is not just vaster than we imagine, but vaster than we can imagine. Scientists estimate the cosmos contains hundreds of billions of...

We've given lawsuits a bad rap over the years. We’ve seen numerous examples of phony or embellished claims by plaintiffs in the hopes of...

How are you spending Cyber Monday? While we’re shopping for the best deals on holiday gifts after Thanksgiving, it’s easy to forget that there’s...

European Union countries have taken a stand against the widely used herbicide glyphosate after researchers connected it to cancer risk in humans. They refused to...

There is no denying that microchipping a child gives parents a sense of security. For some, having a child microchipped will seem “big brother-ish.”...

As President Obama visits Saudi Arabia, a former ambassador and congressman who sat on the 9/11 Commission is asking for the release of 28...