From coffee cards to subway tunnels and AI tutors to numerical epidemics, the week’s reading menu serves up a rich-tasting menu of modern complexity. Whether it’s the illusion of effortless learning, ...

Public health is plunging, autism rates are rising—and so are incident conspiracy theories, including claims that the root of ...

When two of medicine’s most outspoken reformers publish a roadmap for the FDA, you expect at least coherence. Instead, we get ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels—and that the interplay between biology and society ...

RFK Jr. has unveiled a new demand for medical schools–that they offer more nutritional training than they currently do. As we ...

Correctly distinguishing between correlation and causation is critical because it influences how treatments for illnesses are ...

Health-optimizing enthusiasts are strapping on continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to fine-tune their performance, prevent ...

Every time nuclear energy appears promising, a meltdown, political backlash, or cost overrun pushes it back into the shadows.

When cholera ravaged Hamburg in 1892, politics — not science — drove the response. Over a century later, as we confront ...

Did you know that eating just three small apricot kernels, or half of one large apricot kernel can exceed safe levels? Apricot seeds, or kernels, contain a naturally occurring compound called ...

In the war against ultra-processed foods, homemade meals have long enjoyed the moral and nutritional high ground. But a new ...