The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products—including lead paint and leaded gasoline—in the 1970s because of its toxic effects on human health. Scientists at the ...

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Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

This article was adapted from an announcement by the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. Mya Breitbart, a viral ecologist at the University of South Florida’s ...