We often joke about food that lacks any perceptible flavor as tasting like cardboard. In fact, cardboard’s blandness is one facet of its appeal to the food industry. Manufacturers pack foods in cardboard and pizzeria’s deliver their cheese-topped pies in it precisely because it won’t affect the flavor of their products. Or at least that’s been the presumption. A pair of researchers in Germany has now catalogued 37 smelly compounds emitted by cardboard — chemicals that they argue could indeed temper the flavor and scent of foods. “Most of the identified compounds were described as...

Subtle gender-linked effects seen in youngsters mirror impacts witnessed earlier in rodents. (p. 12)

Depending on how citation tallies will be used, it may pay to cherry pick the appropriate counting house.

Though risk of death from conventional flu strains escalates dramatically, beginning around age 45, a new study finds that masks do a fair job of slowing the infection's transmission.

Survey of EPA database turn up widespread problems, which may be only the tip of the iceberg.

To keep the quality of what they publish high, journals may have to frequently recycle the experts asked to evaluate incoming manuscripts.

Scientists make a case for texting and using hand-free technologies with those cell phones to which society has become addicted.