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A study found that anti-Asian political rhetoric during COVID-19 increased unemployment and reduced earnings for Asians in face-to-face jobs.

The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.

Like carbon dioxide and methane, the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide plays a significant role in global warming. While naturally occurring, it is also produced primarily by farming activity. Human-driven nitrous oxide emissions flowed unabated between 1980 and 2020, with more than 10-million metric tons released into the atmosphere in 2020, according to a new report led by Boston College researchers for the Global Carbon Project.

Women rated taller men with larger shoulder-to-hip ratios as more attractive, masculine, dominant, and capable in fights. Self-perceived attractiveness influenced these preferences.

Investigators have discovered that using a novel drug agonist to target the STING pathway in preclinical models of glioblastoma reprogrammed previously suppressed immune responses, according to recent findings published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Researchers find virus is associated with pig sperm

A massive study of 2.3 million people has found that, independent of socioeconomic factors, mental well-being may be the most important single aspect to healthy aging and living longer lives. But a surprise finding was that those who reported the best mental health and stress resilience, which boosted well-being, also seemed to eat more cheese.

The international study which appears in Nature reveals that at least 60% of the genetic diversity found in a historic collection of wheat is unused providing an unprecedented opportunity to improve modern wheat and sustainably feed an increasing global population.

The prevalence of people over 65 living with type 1 diabetes skyrocketed in the past 30 years, a new study finds.

Researchers have found that a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays a key role in why we stick to goals, even when switching might be better.