Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions

At a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublished study that made a big assertion. They claimed that the study, soon to…

Sprout Organics widens recall of baby food pouches for possible lead

by I. Edwards Sprout Organics has widened its recall of 3.5-ounce Sweet Potato, Apple & Spinach pouches because some lots may contain elevated levels of lead. The U.S. Food and…

mRNA vaccine shows promise for treating age-related macular degeneration

Researchers at Science Tokyo developed an mRNA vaccine that suppressed abnormal retinal blood vessel growth in mouse models. The vaccine can be administered intramuscularly and showed effectiveness comparable to current…

JWST searches for stars in a glowing gas cloud

Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). In this light, astronomers see more of the region’s…

Thinking outside the box to fabricate customized 3D neural chips

Credit: KAIST Cultured neural tissues have been widely used as a simplified experimental model for brain research. However, existing devices for growing and recording neural tissues, which are manufactured using…

Facebook, Instagram to offer paid ad-free UK subscriptions

The proposed UK subscription price is lower than in the European Union. Meta announced Friday that Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will be able to buy ad-free subscriptions,…

Novel film manufacturing technique lets robots walk on water

Lightweight framework enables faster, more accurate object detection for UAV remote sensing

Improved remote sensing model allows for enhanced accuracy. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Remote sensing object detection is a rapidly growing field in artificial intelligence, playing a critical role in advancing…

Why 2025’s Harvest Moon is a rare October full moon

Our next full moon will occur on Oct. 6, and it will be a somewhat special one for those living in the Northern Hemisphere in that it will also carry…

Meet the ‘grue jay,’ a rare hybrid songbird

There was something strange about the turquoise-colored songbird flying around San Antonio in 2023. With its black-and-white tail bands and its jeering honk, it somewhat resembled and sounded like a…