See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In his 2008 book, Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear, Canadian ...

People who have lived through floods, heat waves, or other climate-related disasters are significantly more likely to view climate change as a very serious threat, according to new research from the ...

Cigarettes are one of the deadliest products on the market—but the risks of alternatives are not always clearly understood.

DTC Drug Ads: New Study Finds Perception of Risks Diluted by Lengthy Side Effects List A study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising published Monday in Nature Human Behavior finds that ...

Words that cautioned about the health effects of e-cigarettes increased beliefs in the harms associated with these tobacco products, a meta-analysis showed, supporting additional warnings beyond ...

Suppliers and their buyers have been operating in the same risky environment. Both have had to navigate tariffs, fluctuating interest rates, changing policies, rising costs and various supply chain ...

A University of Florida study categorized human actions into alligator risk levels, from no risk to high risk. High-risk behaviors include intentionally interacting with alligators or swimming in ...

In Part One of this pair of posts, I offered the bad news that the human system of risk perception, which has done such a fabulous job of figuring out the relatively simple and obvious risks that ...