Animals that regularly dine on toxic food may hold clues for designing new drugs to treat persistent pain in humans.
In the U.S., people of color are more likely to die of COVID-19 than whites. The new administration can change this.
COVID-19 patients often lose their sense of smell and taste. This is rare for a viral infection. At-home smell tests could…
Racial disparities in the tech sector begin well before college.
COVID-19 vaccine testing on children is just getting started, and only in adolescents. It may be fall before one is approved…
In order to establish his legitimacy, President-elect Joe Biden has to accomplish several big tasks.
The story of the invention in America typically features larger-than-life caricatures of white men like Thomas Edison while…
Ever since players tweaked the game to reflect the medieval social order, poets and writers have used chess as an allegory…
The story of Nigeria's #EndSARS movement shows just how durable law enforcement institutions are – and why the road…
When homes become classrooms, things like a lack of technology and a quiet place to study take an even bigger toll on student…
Because the Taliban's insurgency is so well financed, the Afghan government must spend enormous sums on war, too. A…
Peat beds around the world hold huge quantities of carbon and keep it from warming the planet. But rising temperatures and…
New strategy helps build synthetic organs from scratch. This enabled the researchers to grow functioning liver tissue in…
Like it or not, the facial feature most influenced by your genes is your nose. Researchers investigate which genes are involved…
Three scientists describe the fieldwork they've had to delay in 2020 because of the pandemic. These are setbacks not…
Most methods of determining whether electoral maps are fair require a lot of math and some tough computation. But there…
High-profile media figures are defecting to Substack, where readers will have to pay a subscription to read their work.…
A 1904 revolt against mandatory smallpox inoculation taught Brazilian health officials a deadly lesson on how to vaccinate…