When justice isn’t tempered by something such as mercy, forgiveness, or nonviolence, efforts to make society more equitable often backfire.
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The same technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines may enable the first damage-reversing heart attack cure.
A study finds prescription medications and dangerous unlisted ingredients in ordinary supplements.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.
Overwashing is bad for skin health, but many people do it anyway. One reason is that our brains intimately associate stink with disgust.
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.
The credibility problem facing the biomedical and public health establishment is, at least in part, a product of its own making.
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
The rhetorical fallout is greater than the radioactive fallout.
By slowing down aging, we could reap trillions of dollars in economic benefits.
It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
A study says nature’s candy can be a valuable supplement to sunblock.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
The placebo effect is not the “power of positive thinking.” The fact that it is getting stronger is not a good development.
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.
The role of the Devil’s advocate was to argue against the beatification of mystics. Contrary to popular belief, they did not wear Prada.
She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.
Researchers from the University of Toronto published a new map of cancer cells’ genetic defenses against treatment.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
Scientists ranked countries on their end-of-life care. The U.S. fared poorly.
If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
An active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer in a laboratory study.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.
Despite Boseman’s young age, this cancer is increasingly common in people under 50.
New cancer-scanning technology reveals a previously unknown detail of human anatomy.