Amid all the hubbub about “going green,” it’s a fair question to ask how much power individual consumers have to reduce their environmental impact.

Is recycled wastewater too much to swallow?

Making eco-friendly cement is easy; the hard part comes later.

Humans have a masochistic love of capsaicin, a molecule responsible for the burn in hot peppers. That connection could be a key to pain relief.

Historian Ingrid Ockert makes a case for the spoken word.

Gene editing promises to revolutionize medicine. But how safe is safe enough for the patients testing these therapies?