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In the future, you might voluntarily share your social media data with your psychiatrist to inform a more accurate diagnosis.

Clinical trials at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research focus on stabilizing cognitive loss and alleviating the psychotic symptoms that change our loved ones.

Most people believe you can win an argument with facts – but when “facts” are so often subject to doubt, are personal experiences trusted more?

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued $8 million in follow-up funding to a team of neuroengineers developing brain-to-brain and brain-to-machine technology.

Northwell Health has built an elaborate data system to track and fight COVID-19. If this system goes global, it could prevent a future pandemic.

A new study casts doubt on previous research showing that emotional well-being plateaus at an income of $75,000 per year.

Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.

Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?

Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.

Workaholism is perhaps the most socially accepted addiction, but a new paper shines light on the serious health risks that accompany it along with which occupations are most at risk.

We look back at a year ravaged by a global pandemic, economic downturn, political turmoil and the ever-worsening climate crisis.

Scientists regenerate damaged spinal cord nerve fibers with designer protein, helping paralyzed mice walk again.

Cold hands and feet? Maybe it’s your anxiety.

The long-term lessons America learns from the coronavirus pandemic will spell life or death.

Nutrisystem is a smarter weight-loss program that users enjoy.

New research suggests you can’t fake your emotional state to improve your work life — you have to feel it.

Could medical detection animals smell coronavirus?

Northwell Health is using insights from website traffic to forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations two weeks in the future.

Researchers discover that cancer cells go into hibernation to avoid chemotherapy effects.

A new study on mice showed that ginger may counter certain autoimmune disorders such as lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome.

Want to tell someone’s future in the US? You don’t need a crystal ball, just their zip code.

A new study suggests that maintaining gut health to avoid diabetes may be little simpler than previously believed.

Plan S is starting to take hold, but the cost is merely shifting even more to the researchers.

What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.

Night owl or early bird?

More evidence that we’re drowning in microplastic particles.

The federal government and private insurers greatly increased Americans’ telehealth access during the pandemic. Will these changes be permanent?

While most of these deaths are driven by external factors, interventions can still help prevent them.

After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.

For several weeks after considering the ethics of eating meat, participants in an experiment changed their eating habits.