Look around your home. A food wrapper, a shampoo bottle, a couch cushion and many other items very likely contain synthetic chemicals that were never tested for long-term safety before reaching store ...

Scientists and artists honor Fanny Angelina Hesse’s overlooked role in making agar a culture medium through illustrations and unpublished historical materials.

Researchers at Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science identified a pair of neurons that integrate sweet and bitter ...

College students who seek help for substance use after an overdose face disciplinary action by their campus. A new California law, written in part by students themselves, will require colleges and ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

Rutgers Brain Health Institute supports students through federally funded training grants, scholar programs, and ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

A new analysis represents the largest effort yet to systematically parse all the data from high-quality clinical trials on cannabis and mental health. The evidence is lacking.

When scientists look at numbers like these, the takeaway is not alarm but context — reassuring enough that, after reviewing ...

Using medical or recreational marijuana to ease symptoms of numerous mental health conditions doesn’t work, according to new ...

Neanderthals likely used the sticky substance to build and repair tools, but it also may have had another important use. With its antibiotic properties, birch tar could also treat wounds. The findings ...

Cocaine didn't make its way across the Atlantic until after the Spanish invaded. So how did cocaine end up being found on ...