A simple haircut may reveal more than just split ends. By testing for the stress hormone cortisol, which is stored in hair, ...

Prior to stepping into the role of Harvard College dean in July, David J. Deming was a vocal scholar on elite institutions’ ...

With only a bare bones policy from Oakland Unified School District, teachers are on their own sorting out how to incorporate ...

An investigational small-molecule, nonpeptide oral GLP-1 receptor agonist significantly reduced weight in adults with obesity in the randomized ATTAIN-1 trial. At week 72, orforglipron at multiple ...

Norm and I never published our findings because other researchers had a similar hunch and published their findings in ...

The Trump administration said it plans on making the citizenship test harder, establishing a higher bar for passing and ...

For nearly 60 years, doctors have used cholesterol tests to figure out who might be at high risk for heart disease. But now, ...

A large-scale study analyzing over a million births in Sweden found no evidence that prescribed opioid pain medications during pregnancy cause autism or ADHD in children.

A drug called riluzole, commonly used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other motor neuron diseases, could ...

The research proposes a new cognitive architecture that harnesses large language models to simulate more human-like decision-making. Unlike traditional agents, these LLM-powered agents use a layered ...

This week I’m off the sounds and into the pages! Coming off the book stack this installment is “Beating Time: The Story of ...