Social media bans are facing their first test. In late 2025, Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act came into effect, restricting social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok from ...

Far too often, the advice offered to junior scientists in my orbit boils down to one instruction: “Delete your social media account.” The advice is easy to understand. On many platforms, scientists ...

In May 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a lengthy briefing document on an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis that often damages the kidneys and lungs.

On a lonely planet, billions of years ago, a soup of chemicals — in the right place, at the right time, and with the right conditions — shifted from an unalive assemblage into something scientists ...

Stereotypes die hard. If we’re asked to picture a scientist at work, it’s tempting to reach for an old stand-by: the astronomer at the eyepiece of an enormous telescope, or the chemist surrounded by ...

Other animals may have some capacity to grasp small numbers, but only humans have jumped on the number train and steamed ahead full throttle. As mathematician and author Richard Elwes sees it, it all ...

When polling forecasters assessed public opinion in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, they were pretty off point: Most suggested a very close race between Donald Trump and Kamala ...

Randy Hatton ran the hotline. His students fielded dozens of drug-related questions from pharmacists, physicians, and even the occasional vet. When the phones rang, Hatton and his team never knew what ...

When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years. The government had deemed him trustworthy through his career in the Army. But ...

After a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people, the United States is poised to lose its status as a measles-free country. However, the newly appointed principal ...

In 2022, Maria Stenos had her womb, ovaries, and fallopian tubes removed. For years, the 36-year-old had suffered debilitating pain and mental health issues, which appeared before the start of her ...

Those cuts and withdrawals have left a vacuum of an estimated $10 billion or more in global health. That makes the Gates Foundation — formerly known as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which ...