Food Allergies: Nothing to Sneeze At
Do you have a food allergy? If you’re an adult in the U.S., there’s about a 10 percent chance that you do—and, according to a new study,...
Depressed? Check Your Gut
As if depressed or anxious people needed another thing to worry about, a new study from UC San Francisco suggests that depression and...
Meet the Monkey at the Forefront of Discovery
Science news is full of what certainly sound like promising new studies featuring lab mice or lab rats as the test subjects. New...
Grey Matters
Parents won’t run out of things to worry over any time soon. A 2016 Pew Research Center report surveyed Americans with children under 18...
Placebo Power
Imagine that scientists have discovered a painkiller that is incredibly cheap to make, has no dangerous side effects, and performs at a...
Strolling Towards a Better Brain
You already know that exercise is good for you. You may already know that exercise is good for your mind. For instance, you may have...
Never See a Bat the Same Way Again
As Halloween approaches, let’s pause for a moment to consider a common piece of creepy iconography in Western culture: the bat....
Fighting Loneliness with "Likes"
Studies show that senior citizens are more connected to the web than ever before. According to the Pew Research Group, smartphone...
In The War on Truth, a New Weapon
“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it,” wrote Jonathan Swift in 1710. Variations of the saying, including the punchier...
The Fun Frontier
If you’re not, say, a recent time traveler from the Middle Ages, by now you’ve probably heard that exercise is good for you. If you’re a...
