Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Led by Ocean Conservancy researchers, the paper is the most comprehensive study yet to quantify the extent to which a range of plastic ...

The lethal dose for racemic bupivacaine was higher for two-week-old rats than for 16-week-old rats, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. Researchers infused Wistar rats with RS(±) ...

Following the death of a St. Tammany Parish woman who had used an "excessive dose" of kratom, Coroner Christopher Tape is urging people to use extreme caution when ingesting the herb, which is ...

A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly. The research analyzed the ...