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Using a technique called optogenetics, researchers added light-sensitive proteins to the man’s retina, giving him a blurry view of objects.

Death by suicide is the number one cause of death for young adult Asian Americans. Kelvin Murray/Getty ImagesRacially motivated violence looks like the mass shootings that killed Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Chung Park, Hyun Grant and Suncha Kim in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. Racially motivated violence also looks like suicide, which is defined as a deliberate act of self-directed violence in order to cause injury to oneself that results in death. According to data from the Centers for Disease Contr

Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?

Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?

As homicide rates increase in some cities, doctors reveal the vast but largely hidden economic and psychological cost of gun violence.

In 1972, Dr. John Fryer risked his career to tell his colleagues that gay people were not mentally ill. His act sent ripples through the legal, medical and justice systems.

As the world pretends the pandemic is over, at least a half-million children in the U.S. are struggling with the mysterious disease.

The Biden administration is sheepishly waving a checkered flag on the pandemic. The world is still barely vaccinated, and even in wealthy countries like the United States, resources are inequitably distributed. It absolutely ain’t over. And this is no time to drop the ball.

From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.

When our culture makes fun of mothers’ forgetfulness, it is abdicating responsibility for the overwork women are experiencing and its effects on their health.

State-sanctioned efforts to keep the incarcerated from reproducing began in the early 20th century and continue today.

About half of the people with eating disorders have public insurance, yet few, if any, options exist to help them.

Opinion | Science journalists say they face threats of online harassment — and that newsrooms are doing little to protect them.

Years of cultivated hatred led to death on a horrifying scale.

A graduate student is analyzing how Stormfront and other racist websites misunderstand, and misuse, new scientific papers

Mutual complaint can be stabilizing.

Trains are still one of the safest ways to get from Point A to Point B.

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This past Saturday, I obtained free tickets behind home plate for the White Sox-Yankees game through a convoluted chain of events that started in spring of last year and ultimately involved baseball, an essay contest with a $25 Paris Baguette gift card for second prize, and a series of Instagram DMs. It’s a long story. […]

We could bring down the death toll caused by guns if we are smarter about how we regulate them.

Though musk oxen are built to bash, a study of the headbutters turned up signs of brain damage. But that may not be catastrophic for the bovids.

Supreme Court rules that police do not have constitutional duty to protect person from harm, even woman who obtained court-issued protective order against violent husband which made arrest mandatory for violation; decision overturns ruling by federal appeals court in Colorado; it had permitted lawsuit to proceed against town of Castle Rock, whose police failed to respond to woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated protective order by kidnapping their three children, whom he eventually killed; in another ruling, Supreme Court rebukes US Court of Appeals in Cincinnati for reopening death penalty appeal, on basis of newly discovered evidence, after Supreme Court had ruled on matter; 5-to-4 decision involves convicted murderer Gregory Thompson (M)

The judge tossed a lawsuit filed by Parkland students.

And they won’t stop the next.

Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.

The Buffalo massacre shooter contorted genetic studies to support his hateful views

America is reeling from yet another devastating spate of mass shootings. The common thread in all of the country’s revolting mass shootings is the absurdly easy access to guns. The science is clear: Restrictions work, and it’s likely that even more limitations would save thousands of lives. So why not take the laws much further, as other countries have done? The alternative is painfully obvious—living with more and more senseless carnage, courtesy of the National Rifle Association and their well-funded political lackeys.

A new field is using genomic data to explore possible connections between genes and behavior — an endeavor one critic likened to “playing with dynamite.”