A cognitive training program may boost production of a brain chemical that plays a vital role in memory and attention, a new ...

Because GLP-1 agonists seem to reduce patients’ desire for food, it isn’t surprising that they might also shrink or even ...

Two authors from ETH Zurich and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau have concluded that the rapid production and distribution of chemicals in the environment means that regulatory risk assessment can no longer ...

A University of Minnesota professor who helped discover the widespread contamination of PFAS in the environment nearly 25 ...

Researchers at Umeå University and the Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, have developed new laser methods that can ...

A new study shows that cognitive training can increase the levels of a key chemical messenger in the brain responsible for decision-making.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are known as forever chemicals because of their extreme persistence. These compounds have useful properties including durability and waterproofing, so ...

A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has provided fresh insight into the dangers some common household chemicals pose to brain health. They suggest that ...

We know how important clean water is, but tricky chemicals that get into our water can be hard to detect, posing dangers to ...

In yet another federal funding cut and reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has restored the full $1.6 million grant to University of Maine researchers working with farmers to reduce the ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Some 13,000 chemicals are associated with plastic production, of which only 7,000 or so have been ...

Through the collaborative research efforts as part of the Superfund Research Program (SRP), scientists from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have demonstrated a new method for detecting ...