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Prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals has been shown to be associated with rising cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a potentially cancer-causing condition.

Some say, the world is your oyster, but the world — especially human impacts on the environment — can actually be found inside an oyster, according to a new study.

Scientists have developed the first proteins that can detect a deadly nerve agent called VX in real-time and without false positives from insecticides.

Isotope analysis of teeth from unmarked graves in Adelaide has helped uncover the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists.

Researchers found that, in mice, how much they ate and when altered the nature of their gut microbiome: too much food too frequently resulted in poorer microbial and metabolic health.

Eating one avocado a day for six months was found to have no effect on belly fat, liver fat or waist circumference in people who were overweight or obese. However, it did lead to a slight decrease in unhealthy cholesterol levels.

Researchers have shown that climate change is a stronger driver of increasing atmospheric methane than expected, causing the Earth to heat up more and faster than anticipated.

Less than 7 percent of the U.S. adult population has good cardiometabolic health, a devastating health crisis requiring urgent action, according to research led by Tufts University.

Scientists have shown a way to monitor the chemistry of liquid electrolytes during battery cycling by Raman spectroscopy.

A recent survey of the research surrounding nutrition and dementia risk has highlighted why finding convincing evidence linking the two is so difficult.