Emily Moon

Here's what the change could mean for food security among SNAP participants.

Federal regulation of research tissue from the deceased is prefaced on the assumption that the dead (tissue) stays dead. A new experiment suggests otherwise.

Alison Van Eenennaam has spent the last decade explaining gene editing to critics who find fear more compelling than data. Is anybody listening?

An art historian and theorist explains how places become invested with cultural meaning and memory, and what happens when we lose them.

Six states are restricting lawsuits against concentrated animal feeding operations in ways that will disproportionately affect low-income communities.

Students ask the media to publicize their images if they die in a shooting, a prison in Mississippi will replace in-person visits with low-budget Skype, and a minor planet gets its name.

And other key takeaways from the latest Census of Agriculture.

Imaging a supermassive black hole takes a massive amount of funding.

The city's health department will begin imposing fines for unvaccinated people living in the neighborhood of Williamsburg.

North Dakota is the latest state to restrict the use of the term in food labeling to protect its livestock industry.

Even as men profess to understand affirmative consent in their jokes and apologies, many conflate sexual desire with consent in practice.

A new report finds that racial discrimination within USDA programs is responsible for this decline.

The agency says it is looking into the use of CBD in food as well as deceptive marketing of CBD products.

The agency wants to update food packaging rules so that such labeling is based on scientific evidence.

In a letter, the lawmakers urge the USDA to reconsider a proposed rule that would make it harder for able-bodied adults without children to receive food assistance.

The presidential candidate proposes to fight industrial agriculture through reforms on mergers, checkoff programs, right-to-repair, and country-of-origin labels.

Though the agency eliminated the extra-small and small in previous space suits, NASA's lead spokesperson says sizing will factor into new designs.

A new study finds that substantial reductions in spending on red meat resulted in lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Public-health experts say the measure is unusual, but necessary.

Can the space suits of tomorrow overcome the gender disparities of today?

Political psychologists weigh in on whether people's views will change, and how entrenched our partisan identities are.

Silence speaks volumes (and so does interrupting women and making mean jokes).

A legal expert says the decision doesn't bode well for Bayer, which is facing thousands of pending cases over Roundup.

Public officials and Texas' environmental regulator maintain that the chemicals released in the fire did not pose a health risk.

Is Fair Oaks Farms bringing transparency to large-scale agriculture—or something more like propaganda?

As this water emergency quickly becomes a public-health crisis, here's what officials are reporting.

The FDA cleared the last hurdle for the first GMO fish. Industry groups want pigs to be next.

California's water conservation has seen ups and downs in recent years. Here's what the data shows.

The state's pork industry hasn't given up yet.

The Meatless Monday campaign has done what federal nutrition policy has not: ban meat—at least for a day.

SNAP has become more vulnerable under Trump. Alabama's law could test how far the administration is willing to go to destabilize the program.

H.R. 1 would transfer the power to draw congressional districts from state legislatures to independent, non-partisan commissions.

Sexual assault in the military affects about 4.3 percent of female service members, but it often goes unreported.

While anti-vaccine propaganda continues to spread online, experts and teens are talking about how to fight it.

Four years ago, the meat industry killed efforts to include the environmental impact of the food we eat. New reports say the issue won't resurface in 2020.

The Green New Deal's advocates may not be coming down on meat, but if they did, they wouldn't be the first.

Legislation made the anti-vaccine movement possible—and as the example of West Virginia shows, it can also help fight it.

The president's former lawyer is likely seeking a sentence reduction, but that won't depend on his public testimony.

The state would be the fourth to ban non-medical vaccine exemptions, a policy change lauded as one of the surest ways to avoid an outbreak.

Pinterest has taken a more extreme approach to banning anti-vaccine content than Facebook. Here's how that could help.

Actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct for making a false report of a hate crime. Research shows such reports are rare.

A media law and ethics expert on the landmark ruling that safeguarded the press' right to be wrong.

New reports have implicated Facebook and other social media platforms for their role in the spread of anti-vaccine propaganda.

Challengers to Trump's national-emergency declaration can use his own words against him.

A legal expert on emergency powers weighs in.

While the president has far-reaching powers in a state of emergency, experts say Trump could face legal challenges over specific provisions.

What do you do when your parents refuse to let you get vaccinated? Ask the Internet.

Research shows anti-vaxxers have stoked public resistance to vaccination and increased rates of vaccine-preventable diseases across the country.

Many of the Trump administration's own policies undermine this goal.

A soybean farmer explains the challenges facing farmers if Trump's trade war continues.