The share of US kindergartners without both MMR doses has risen from 4.8 to 7.6 percent since 2019, and the shortfall is concentrated in schools county averages cannot see.
New research reveals two specific gossip habits that separate socially intelligent people from the rest — and why gossiping isn’t the character flaw it seems.
Armpit hair isn’t left over from evolution — it’s tied to puberty, scent glands and skin bacteria, and it flips what we assume about human hairlessness.
A new era in tuberculosis care has begun with the introduction of a highly affordable molecular test, priced at just $2.60. Global rollout is now underway.
North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover as many as 200,000 new planets and reveal details about the elusive nature of dark matter and dark energy.
What if we could estimate a shark’s age from a small blood sample rather than counting growth rings in its vertebrae? New research on zebra sharks has developed an “epigenetic clock” that can predict age with surprising accuracy, using changes in DNA m…
Psychologists find the least productive weekend habit—reading a novel with no goal—quietly trains the reading of other minds and comfort with ambiguity.
Humans are the only primates with true, everted lips — a biologist unpacks the competing theories for why, from feeding and speech to social signaling.
How a tiny little electronic switch sparked the computer revolution.