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Lighter, less greasy, more effective sunscreen exists. So what’s the hold up stateside?
Talking with the psychologists who brought the real science of emotion to the Pixar film.
Are you destined to always be the “eldest daughter”?
Bottom line: Wearing it is still good advice.
A Q&A with Jonathan Haidt on smartphones, kids today, and what the skeptics get wrong about his argument.
MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
The commodification of an activist concept turned a revitalizing practice into an isolating one.
A practical guide to navigating a fractured support system.
Exposure to salty water can rob women of their reproductive organs and pregnancies.
How climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
Extreme heat is dangerous when you’re pregnant — particularly for those in underrepresented communities.
How to protect mothers and babies as warming temperatures expand the risk of contracting the disease.
Climate disasters are threatening access to IVF and other forms of fertility treatment.
Experts say a flood of social media posts about side effects don’t tell the whole story.
Maybe you actually smell fine.
Ozempic has become hugely popular. Researchers are racing to learn more about what it does to us.
With bird flu affecting multiple dairy farms, unpasteurized products are more dangerous than ever — but some people are reluctant to heed government guidance.
From privacy breaches to bad providers, teletherapy services often come with a hidden cost.
Decades of citizen science are finally translating into clinical trials for psychedelic pain treatments.
It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
We eat pigs. Do we need them to process our urine too?
New regulations are a win for safe synthetic DNA.
Longevity research may not let us live forever — but it could still make our lives better in smaller ways.
A post-Covid pandemic treaty was supposed to be a breakthrough. Instead, it looks like a disappointment.
Emerging apps use AI to guess when you’ll be sad. Can they also help you feel better?
A new book on youth suicide clusters offers perspective on prevention.
The genetic data that underpins CRISPR has a big diversity problem.
Lighter, less greasy, more effective sunscreen exists. So what’s the hold up stateside?
A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough.
“A billion people at risk”: How worldwide cholera outbreaks are threatening lives.
How conspiring doctors, questionable tonics, and twisted patriotism led to the 1864 Arizona abortion ban that has finally been repealed.
Here’s what’s worrying experts right now about H5N1’s spread among dairy cows — and what isn’t.
How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.
The costly procedure was supposed to give women a new kind of freedom. Is that what it really offers?
Here’s how to understand the difference between everyday anxiety and an anxiety disorder.