After just a year, the fires that spread around Los Angeles are already the most studied urban wildfires in history. While the Palisades Fire lapped at the edge of UCLA, the Eaton Fire, on the east ...

Joe Yates, Prof Philip J Landrigan, Prof Jennifer Kirwan and Prof Jamie Davies respond to an article on doubts raised about studies on microplastics in the human body While it may be a belated ...

Work can break your back — in some cases, literally and figuratively. Resume Genius ranked the 10 most hazardous U.S. jobs in 2025 by fatality rates and salaries, and GOBankingRates analyzed whether ...

Injuries and deaths are rising — but the law hasn’t kept up. By Adam B. Kushner I am the editor of The Morning. Sometimes I bike to work. It’s a 12-mile workout alongside the Potomac River — a lovely ...

Recent testing by a Virginia Commonwealth University forensic toxicology research lab is uncovering the hidden dangers of vapes and cannabis products used by more than a million school-age children ...

Common sense suggests that dangerous jobs, the ones that have us climbing on roofs or protecting our skulls with hard hats, should deliver higher wages. The term “hazard pay” comes to mind. Yet some ...

The declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with governments all over the world trying to find ways to reverse it. There is a constantly evolving discussion about the causes of the ...

Social media can be as addictive as crack cocaine. News updates and “likes” trigger a release of dopamine that fosters psychological dependence. Young people whose brains aren’t fully developed easily ...

The United Nations announced a new “global dialogue on artificial intelligence governance,” and a new global A.I. panel on the technology’s risks and rewards. By Steve Lohr The United Nations on ...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective mental health treatment. While it’s not dangerous for most people, it can have side effects. It involves experiencing rhythmic ...

While crime can occur anywhere, there are some U.S. cities where crime rates are much higher than other areas in the country. As a whole, the U.S. has a reported violent crime rate of 380.7 incidents ...

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and a Nobel prizewinner for his role in developing the AlphaFold AI algorithm for predicting protein structures, made an astonishing claim on the 60 Minutes show ...