Every year, I promise myself I’m not going to eat myself into a food coma: I’ll eat responsibly, front-load my belly with salad, and go light on the turkey and gravy. Instead, I wake up three hours after Thanksgiving dinner,…
New research from the Mass General Brigham hospital system shows that discontinuing universal masking and testing for respiratory viruses correlates with increased hospital-onset infections. Reintroducing masking for healthcare workers during a viral surge reduced these infections, highlighting the complex interplay…
Most of us don’t think much about electric charge, apart from in those annoying moments when our phones run out of it. But for physicists, it is a big deal. In every atom, negatively charged electrons orbit a nucleus containing…
What would you say if you suddenly stubbed your toe on a doorframe? Depending on how much it hurt, you might cry out in pain, unleash a stream of expletives—or utter a very specific exclamation, such as “ouch” or “ow.”…
A groundbreaking analysis of fossilized droppings has unveiled the step-by-step process of how dinosaurs evolved from minor players to Earth’s dominant land animals, challenging long-held assumptions about their rise to power. Published in Nature | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes…
A different missile to Oreshnik, the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, is test-fired from the Plesetsk launch pad in north-western Russia in March 2024 Associated Press/Alamy Stock Photo On 21 November a new Russian weapon hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipro,…
The temperature is dropping, and rates of a whole host of respiratory illnesses are doing the opposite. Among them is so-called walking pneumonia, a relatively mild form of pneumonia that has been unusually common in young children this year. Pneumonia…
Editor’s Note: In honor of Thanksgiving, we are re-running this article from March 2020. Go ahead and be grateful for the good things in your life. Just don’t think that a gratitude intervention will help you feel less depressed or…
Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images In 1818, Mary Shelley invented a technology that has been used for both good and ill in the centuries since. It is called science fiction. You may not think a literary genre counts as technology, but sci-fi…
November 27, 2024 5 min read Choosing Empathy Is Critical to Democracy If we lose sight of why empathy matters, both individual dignity and democracy suffer By C. Daryl Cameron Denis Novikov/Getty Images In the weeks before and after the…
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