That plastic wrap you find around the food you eat is far from benign: A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach ...

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Victor Carl Honey's family alleges that when he died, his "unclaimed" body was donated to science, although "he never wanted ...

"Children and adults in agricultural regions of the San Joaquin Valley of California continue to be exposed to pesticides," ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been at the forefront of nutritional science research and education for over ...

A spinout from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children that aims to treat cancer, HIV and other complex diseases with a new type ...

Temperatures across Southern California once again stretched past 100 degrees on Monday, and remained warm Tuesday, with excessive heat warnings still in effect. Many school districts announced ...

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LAUSD has portable outdoor misting fans and pop-up tents at some elementary schools. Long Beach has equipped classrooms ...

New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

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It now appears that kids distribute their attention broadly ... Sloutsky conducted the study, published recently in the journal Psychological Science, with lead author Qianqian Wan, a doctoral ...