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Drugs and other pharmaceutical pollutions across the world's rivers pose a threat to environmental and human health, according to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[...]

Producing a few pounds of weed can have the same environmental toll as driving across America seven times – harming cities’ and states’ plans to curb emissions

Last November researchers in China discovered a strain of bacteria that resisted all forms of antibiotics - including the "last-resort drug" colistin. Now, government officials have found the first case of an antibiotic-resistant...

Smithfield is one of the biggest meat production companies in the world, and in the U.S. it feeds pigs, cattle and turkeys the growth-promoting drug ractopamine. However, ractopamine is not used in 160 other countries...

Photo via Shutterstock Much of the world’s human population has some sort of pharmaceutical running through their veins, and as it turns out, so does the planet’s streams and rivers...

According to research published in in the journal Science on Thursday, humans aren’t the only creatures who get a good buzz from caffeine. It turns out that plants produce caffeine-laced nectar to attract honeybees...

To perfect new medicines and surgical techniques, scientists need to conduct experiments on real humans. The only problem is, there aren’t too many living people who want to be guinea pigs for untested drugs or procedures....

Both the Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties are passionate advocates of action against climate change, writes Martin Robbins, but other areas of their science policies are sketchyRead Plaid Cymru's responses in full hereSo...

Prominent figures in UK science, including Brian Cox, Simon Singh and David Nutt, challenged the main political parties to answer 10 questions about their science policy...

Prominent figures in UK science, including Brian Cox, Simon Singh and David Nutt, challenged the main political parties to answer 10 questions about their science policy...

We challenged the main political parties to answer questions about their science policy posed by prominent scientists including Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh and David Nutt...

We challenged the main political parties to answer key questions about their science policies. Here, Martin Robbins analyses the responses from the Green partyRead the Greens' answers in full hereWhen we put questions to...

Prominent figures in UK science, including Brian Cox, Simon Singh and David Nutt, challenged the main political parties to answer 10 questions about their science policy...

Prominent figures in UK science, including Brian Cox, Simon Singh and David Nutt, asked the main political parties 10 challenging questions about their science policies...