Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has introduced a wave of changes that threaten to undo decades of infectious disease prevention. But what does the science say about these changes to pediatric vaccine policies?
ADHD is one of the more common neurotypes. About 22 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with ADHD.
Northern Kentucky is a key region to study as a zone of expansion for Lyme disease and West Nile virus, meaning species not originating from the area are migrating there.
As personalized nutrition apps like ZOE rise in popularity, experts question whether their approach is empowering users or exploiting their trust.
The rapid adoption of small-scale autonomous vehicles is transforming both interactive education and applied research in the self-driving industry.
Bogong moths journey over 1,000 kilometers across Australian terrain using the stars as one of their guides.
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Dennis Meredith's latest scifi novel starts with a real event, the 1961 Soviet detonation in the Arctic of a bomb far bigger than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviets allegedly hid an even larger bomb in East Germany. In The Czar Bomb, rogue state terrorists locate it and plan to detonate it over Washington, DC. The race is on to neutralize it. Hi-tech warfare ensues.
Our infatuation with Mars, David Baron writes, “began in a strange era, not that long ago, when it was the astronauts who were fiction and the Martians that were real.” In The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America, Baron explores the consequences of astronomer Percival Lowell’s 1894 assertion that “canals” he saw on Mars suggested life existed there.
