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Anti-abortion Heartbeat Bills Cause Immense Suffering

The rise in infant mortality in Texas shows that in states with strict abortion ...

New NASA Heat Map Shows Scorching Streets That Can Burn...

Under the scorching summer sun, pavement can reach temperatures hot enough to ca...

New Supreme Court Decisions Jeopardize Efforts to Curb ...

Four recent Supreme Court decisions will together make it much harder for the fe...

How Some People’s Body Resists Getting COVID

When scientists exposed people to the virus that causes COVID, only a subset got...

Biden Pushes to Stop Heat Deaths after Decades of Delay

It took 50 years and skyrocketing temperatures before the government proposed he...

Summertime Depression Could Be a Type of Seasonal Affec...

Heat and mood are closely linked, which may explain summertime depression—and ho...

Pupil Dilation Reveals Better Working Memory

People whose eyes dilated more performed better on tests of working memory

What Makes a Psychedelic Experience? Not Always a Drug,...

A Stanford anesthesiologist deconstructs the component parts of what it means to...

The Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the ...

A Combination COVID and Flu Vaccine Is Coming Soon

The first large trial of a COVID and flu vaccine combo suggests it boosts immune...

New Heat Risk Map Shows Which Parts of the U.S. Are Lik...

The CDC’s new Heat and Health Index looks at the vulnerability of 32,000 neighbo...

Heat Waves Need FEMA’s Help

Heat waves are costly and kill more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes ...

Supreme Court’s Message in First Amendment Case: Tech I...

The Supreme Court kicked two cases challenging social media moderation laws in F...

Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studie...

Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrate...

Vaccines Are the Safest Health Hack

Vaccines are a cornerstone of a healthy immune system—and a healthy life

A Retracted Stem Cell Study Reveals Science’s Shortcomings

The withdrawal after 22 years of a controversial stem cell paper highlights how ...

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