
5 Things to Know about Monkeypox
From symptoms to vaccines and treatment, here are some fast facts about monkeypox.

5 Things to Know about Monkeypox
From symptoms to vaccines and treatment, here are some fast facts about monkeypox.

See the Oldest View of Our Known Universe, Just Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Decades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment: the first science from the largest and most powerful observatory ever built.

Roe v. Wade Was Overturned: Here’s How Your Phone Could Be Used to Spy on You
From figuring out how often you go to the bathroom to potentially being used to prosecute you, your trusty smartphone might not be so trusty in a post-Roe world.

Utah Kept Them from Learning about Consent, So These Teens Found a Place to Have ‘the Talk’ Together
A group of teenagers in rural Utah are training to become sex educators so that they can teach their peers what they do not learn in the classroom

On Three Different Continents, Rural Health Strains under the Weight of the Coronavirus
In remote communities in the U.S., Ecuador and Zimbabwe, these health care workers are fighting much more than the virus

COVID Deaths Left Orphans: To Their Loss, Add Lifelong Health Risks
Avion Simon and his siblings, C.J. and Momo, lost their mom to COVID-19. Science has some ideas about the health hurdles that they and other COVID orphans could face in the future.

The Weather Myth: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Bonus Episode
When we first started researching Klára Dán von Neumann, we thought she was “the computer scientist you should thank for your smartphone’s weather app.” It turns out that’s not true

HIV Care Has Improved Dramatically—But Not for Everyone
The HIV/AIDS crisis has lessons for the COVID pandemic and other health inequities

Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury
The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked

The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront the Burden of Bias
Research shows that antifat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient’s story

Science Still Doesn’t Understand How Our Sex Affects Our Health
Our X and Y chromosomes represent the biggest genetic difference in our species. Medicine routinely ignores their influence. Why?

The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.