What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word “Mars”? The answer is probably rovers or dunes of pale red sand or maybe even apocryphal canals and science-fiction cities populated with ...

“ ’Tis the gift to be simple,” the Shakers sing. Catholic nuns and Buddhist monks take vows of poverty. Why? A new study published online in May in Psychological Science offers a hint. Money—even the ...

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Gabriela Galvin is an award-winning journalist based in London, in the U.K., covering health and social policy. Her reporting has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek and Stat News, ...

A viral documentary has everyone talking about Elizabeth Holmes’s fraudulent blood testing start-up again—but scientists ...

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