Featured series 
Tag: Research
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Health
Are you doing enough to keep your brain healthy?
Take our quiz to score your lifestyle’s potential for preventing diseases like dementia
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Health
Depression and anxiety linked to increased risk of heart attack or stroke
Study suggests stress reduction holds potential for cardiovascular disease prevention
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Science & Tech
Stopping the next pandemic
Disease surveillance network faced ‘existential cliff’ despite proven success. Then came the $100 million.
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Health
Is cost curbing use of weight loss drugs?
40 percent of GLP-1 prescriptions go unfilled, study finds
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Health
Social media detox boosts mental health, but nuances stand out
‘Wildly different reactions’ among participants, says researcher
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Health
New research finds 5 genetic signatures shared by 14 psychiatric disorders
Could advance treatment of mental illness with greater precision, less medication
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Arts & Culture
At a loss for words
Displacement and forced migration trigger alarm about language attrition in Cameroon
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Health
Break in the case for long COVID investigators
Research highlighting chronic inflammation opens path to treating illness that affects millions of Americans
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Science & Tech
First, male gets heated up, then female, and then, you know
Study shows infrared radiation from plants serves as invitation to pollinating insects
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Science & Tech
Science needs contrarians, and contrarians need support
Institute of Quantitative Social Science initiative tailored to researchers exploring provocative ideas
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Health
Your digital twin might save your life
AI, statistics offer new possibilities for personalized medicine
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Health
How a toxin from the gut microbiome may help spark colorectal cancer
Findings suggest colibactin may be promising target for disease prevention
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Science & Tech
Cracking the code of why, when some choose to ‘self-handicap’
New research also offers hints for devising ways to stop students from creating obstacles to success
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Science & Tech
How memory works (and doesn’t)
In podcast, scientists explain why remembering is more reconstruction than replay
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Health
Why stress can make your hair fall out
Closer look at two-part reaction may offer researchers insights into autoimmune disease
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Health
Nighttime exposure to light may raise cardiovascular risk by up to 50%
New research suggests that it disrupts biological clock
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Health
Why childhood obesity endures, grows
Issues are complex, touch on lifestyle, culture, genetics, economy, policy
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Health
Looking to build muscle? Lose weight? Need more protein, right? Probably not.
Forget influencers, nutritionist says. Here’s how much you really need, why too much can actually hurt you
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Nation & World
Girls fell further behind in math during, after pandemic
Leading sociologist says emotional, family, social disruptions likelier cause than school closures
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Health
In the grip of ‘horror and anger,’ Gawande grows more determined
As global health suffers, his focus on patient-first systems feels more urgent than ever
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Science & Tech
Mapping our deep-rooted relationship with medicinal plants
Regions with longer histories of human settlement tend to have greater variety, study finds
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Campus & Community
On the sea or in the lab, Olivia Hogan-Lopez knows the value of perseverance
Senior is researching how PFAS chemicals impact humans and the environment
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Health
Why the Mediterranean diet works
In podcast, experts break down universal appeal, research-backed benefits of a health trend that adds more than it takes away
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Health
8 trajectories for long COVID
Study captures variability of a condition that affects millions
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Science & Tech
Solving mystery at tip of South America
Study finds previously unknown ancient lineage of indigenous people, which gave rise to surprisingly diverse mix of cultures
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Health
Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips
Study explores links between financial stress, mortality risk
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Health
Researchers link ultraprocessed foods to precancerous polyps
Results come amid rise in under-50 colorectal cancer cases
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Science & Tech
Is AI dulling our minds?
Experts weigh in on whether tech poses threat to critical thinking, pointing to cautionary tales in use of other cognitive labor tools
