The public deserves honesty and respect. Scientists need to do a better job delivering, says Frederic Bertley, president of the COSI Science Center.

Everyone is biased, she says; it's built into the way we experience the world. But that doesn't mean that we are slaves to our instincts.

Some researchers are targeting artificial foods as a leading public health problem. As with so many dietary issues, though, the evidence tells a more nuanced tale.

Rhetorical tricks and strategic deceptions are once again being used to skew science against marginalized groups.

Airborne toxins can increase our risk for cognitive disability and disease. The science of exposomics is helping to identify effective responses.

Dunning, co-discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger effect, investigates the misinformation gap built into our brains: We don't know what we don't know.

New research shows how environmental exposures accumulated throughout life could explain subtle cognitive deficits and profound neurological disease.

There's often a vast chasm between people's moral aspirations and the things they need to do just to survive in a brutal world.

Plante, a psychologist and ethicist, weighs in the pros and cons of chatbots. Can AI fill in for a shortage of human therapists?

A little bit of knowledge might make you think you have expert status in areas from medicine to mountain climbing —when that happens, look to the Dunning-Kruger effect, and take extra care.