Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. For decades, self-awareness has been guarded as a very ...

To this day, animal testing remains one of the most controversial issues in animal rights. Activists have been fighting ...

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

In 2019, the EPA called for a 30% decrease in animal testing by 2025, and a total phase-out by 2035. The agency under the ...

The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

FDA and NIH recently announced initiatives outlining specific actions each agency will take to encourage greater adoption of new and emerging technologies to reduce the need for — and potentially ...