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In conversations caught on hidden camera, New York City’s former COVID czar said that he’d organized a pair of sex parties in the second half of 2020, as New...
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Deb Jenssen never wanted her children to suffer from the disease that killed her brother at 28. The illness, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, initially manifests...
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seadog81/ShutterstockSince 2019, real-terms spending on health-related benefits in Britain has increased by £12 billion and is set to continue growing, acco...
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For the past couple of months, Donald Trump has been working hard to prove that, as he said during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he is “a lea...
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JFontan/ShutterstockWith the Paris Olympics and Paralympics wrapped up, and leading Australian sports codes coming to an end of their 2024 seasons, many ath...
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A placenta is, by definition, new tissue: It grows from scratch over nine months of pregnancy. So when a team of researchers found microplastics in every hum...
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Richard Einhorn first noticed that he was losing his hearing in a way that many others do—through a missed connection, when he couldn’t make out what a colle...
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Content Warning: This article mentions substance abuse, suicide, and eating disorders. In Demi Lovato’s directorial debut Child Star, the singer conducts a ...
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As a growing number of schools ban phones to protect kids online, Congress is considering the most significant internet regulations in decades. | Klau...
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Meta has introduced ‘Teen Accounts’ for Instagram with stronger built-in protections for under-16 users and parental supervision provisions. The new feature,...
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I thought I'd pass along portions of the friend-of-the-court brief that three other law professors and I (four of the very few academics who have written on ...
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This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine.Peering through his microscope in 1910, the Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d’Hérelle noticed...
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A grim and all too familiar scene played out on Thursday night as the Miami Dolphins faced off against the Buffalo Bills. Racing toward the end zone, the Dol...
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Poverty has long been established as a crucial factor hindering the development of young children. Living in poverty can hurt a child’s lifelong health, soci...
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When the tobacco industry was accused of marketing harmful products to teens, its leaders denied the charge but knew it was true. Even worse, the industry ha...
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Tuesday’s presidential debate was, among other things, an excellent real-world test of the candidates’ cognitive fitness—and any fair-minded mental-health ex...
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Young people have been reporting a sharp rise in anxiety and depression. This maps neatly onto the global rise of the smartphone. Some researchers are convin...
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Tami McGraw used to be so allergic to red meat that even fumes from cooking might send her into anaphylactic shock. She couldn’t fry sausages for her family....
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Up until last Friday afternoon, a total of 13 people in the United States had officially come down this year with avian influenza H5, also known as bird flu....
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Over the last few years, it’s felt like the age verification debate has gotten progressively stupider. People keep insisting that it must be necessary, and w...
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Anuj Shrestha The Research Thomas Keil and Marianna Zangrillo conducted a 10-year research program that examined how new CEOs and executives su...