Humans gave leprosy to armadillos – now they are giving it back to us
Armadillos and humans are linked in the strangest of ways. Armadillos are the only other species known to get leprosy. A…
Armadillos and humans are linked in the strangest of ways. Armadillos are the only other species known to get leprosy. A…
Basic research can be easy to mock as pointless and wasteful of resources. But it's very often the foundation for future…
El 8 de agosto el Senado argentino vota sobre la legalización del aborto. Es una coyuntura incomoda para la Iglesia católica,…
Abortion support is high in Argentina, even among Catholics. That puts the church, which opposes an abortion bill up for…
Ciudad Juárez, en la frontera EEUU-México, ha sufrido altas tasas de homicidio por 12 años. Nuevos datos de suicidio…
Official records on police homicides are full of holes. A new study tries to fill in the gaps – and finds new evidence…
How do brains convert experiences into memories? New research explores the chain of events by focusing on what genes shift…
Donald Trump admires Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin's track record over his career reveals a serial liar,…
Brazil's evangelical Christians are an increasingly powerful political force. These conservative, faith-based voters…
The Trump administration is considering a change to how capital gains taxes are calculated that would save investors roughly…
Who hasn't been told to stretch before and after exercise to prevent injury and improve performance? There may be no…
Friendship requires that we be open to our friends’ ways of seeing things, even when they differ from our own. Is being…
The president says he's fighting his trade war because a generation of free trade has failed working-class Americans.…
New legal boilerplate in corporate merger agreements signals just how important #MeToo has become – not just as a social…
Pope Francis has said that death penalty violates the dignity of a person. But, this might just deepen the debate among…
Data scientists mapped the online behavior of Facebook users in Brazil, the US and Argentina. The result is a startling…
After scandals or sea changes make the association with certain names too awkward, universities, museums and other nonprofits…
A number of factors – from our eagerness to place trust in people to our overconfidence in our own intelligence – make…
What's the connection between kids making paper snowflakes and wearable devices that stretch and bend with your body?…