Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why do people get headaches? – Evie V., age 10, ...

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For years, critics have used fear of “IQ loss” to fuel campaigns against community water fluoridation. Public officials, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have called fluoride an “industrial waste”.

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While the brain itself doesn’t have any nerve sensors to feel pain, blood vessels in the head and structures that protect and surround the brain do sense pain. When these tissues detect injury or ...

More than half of the world lives in cities and that number is increasing every year. We need to teach kids how to live in ...

A new type of lens approved by the FDA promises to slow nearsightedness in children. These specialized glasses, available in ...

With job losses, food benefit reductions and higher prices, many in the U.S. are having to scrimp this holiday season.

The findings come after Utah and Florida’s ban on fluoride in public drinking water went into effect during the summer.

MIT engineers have created an ultrasonic device that rapidly frees water from materials designed to absorb moisture from the air. Instead of waiting hours for heat to evaporate the trapped water, the ...