Science

I stopped smoking marijuana years ago. But with pot being pitched as the answer to everything from stress to sleeplessness, I decided to find out if cannabis is the fastest route to wellness. Introducing the new world of weed.

Hint: Temperature and rainfall are big indicators of what sort of mosquito population you can expect to battle at the cottage

Kristin Lawless argues that ’Big Food’ has obscured the fundamentals of healthy eating—and that some additives actually help cause obesity

A new bill would ban paying for plasma donations nationwide. It’s a counterproductive idea, not to mention hypocritical

The world’s first shipment of genetically-modified salmon arrived in Montreal last year. After that, it’s impossible to track where it went. Why all the secrecy?

A major earthquake along the San Andreas Fault is long overdue, and the risk of floods in California is even more costly

Couples will soon choose their future kids from 100 clinic-created embryos, writes Henry Greely

It’s been 10 years since the last revision, and it took two years and 20,000 submissions to overhaul it. And almost nobody will agree with the result.

The next quantum leap for humanity will be a literal quantum leap. Watch this month’s Perimeter Public Lecture on this big yet tiny topic, live on Apr. 4 at 7pm ET

Notanee Bourassa immersed himself in aurora borealis as a way to escape his troubles. One night, he saw something new and amazing.