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More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.

The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.

Overwashing is bad for skin health, but many people do it anyway. One reason is that our brains intimately associate stink with disgust.

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.

Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.

The rhetorical fallout is greater than the radioactive fallout.

An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.

The credibility problem facing the biomedical and public health establishment is, at least in part, a product of its own making.

The role of the Devil’s advocate was to argue against the beatification of mystics. Contrary to popular belief, they did not wear Prada. 

The placebo effect is not the “power of positive thinking.” The fact that it is getting stronger is not a good development.

On November 25, U.N. members will meet in South Korea to cap off a series of meetings aiming to reduce global plastic pollution.

If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.

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.

By slowing down aging, we could reap trillions of dollars in economic benefits.

What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?

Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.

Scientists ranked countries on their end-of-life care. The U.S. fared poorly.

She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.

A study says nature’s candy can be a valuable supplement to sunblock.

When someone attempts to make you afraid of something that hasn’t happened instead of a true, present danger, suspect this nefarious ploy.

From ibuprofen to fentanyl, it’s about meeting the pain where it’s at.

And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider “explaining what you know” to an actual expert in the field.

In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.

It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.

Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.

Some of the most popular “anti-aging” diets show promise in rodent studies. But are they effective for humans?

Roughly half the world population, including in America, has insufficient levels of vitamin D. UV irradiated mushrooms can help.

In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.

“I need to think about the future. Will you help me?”

Researchers from the University of Toronto published a new map of cancer cells’ genetic defenses against treatment.