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Yale researchers have identified significant differences in how the immune systems of women and men respond to the virus that causes COVID-19.

Introducing artificial light in a natural environment opens the mind to another way of seeing, says photographer and drone pilot Reuben Wu.

Researchers are developing a new battery powered by lab-grown gems made from reformed nuclear waste. If it works, it will last thousands of years.

When people wear masks, they can still get infected, but they’re more likely to have milder symptoms.

It’s possible that you posted something online 10 years ago, and it was fine back then, but 20 years from now you will hope that no one finds it. My message is: the Internet never forgets, cultures change, and retroactive laws exist. People can get screwed…

Venom from honeybees is found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, according to potentially groundbreaking new Australian research, with hopes the discovery will lead to the development of a treatment for triple-negative breast…

The only thing more frightening than annihilation is the possibility that our decadent society could coast on forever.

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To examine whether moderate adolescent cannabis use has neurocognitive effects that are unexplained by familial confounds, which prior family-controlled studies may not have identified.

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Different labels that imply very different outcomes.

The question “What is real?” is inescapable if you study quantum mechanics.Photo illustration by Nikk / FlickrQuantum mechanics…

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring and interventions, said the senior author of a medical literature review published…

When you visit your doctor, you might assume that the treatment they prescribe has solid evidence to back it up. But you'd be wrong. Only one in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence, our latest research shows.

A conservative estimate of the productivity gains from working from home suggests they're bigger than all of the reforms of the 1990s combined.

The first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of vitamin D in COVID-19 has just been published. The results are astounding: vitamin D nearly abolished the odds of requiring treatment in ICU. Although the number of deaths was too small to say for sure, vitamin…

Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought

Worries of a K-shaped recovery are growing in the alphabet-obsessed economics profession. That would entail continued growth, but split sharply between industries and economic groups.