It was a rough week. On July 24, the editors of Science — the most prestigious science journal in the US — retracted an (in)famous paper from 2011 that reported the discovery of a microbe that could ...

More teens and young adults — particularly girls and young women — are reporting being depressed and anxious, compared with comparable numbers from the mid-2000s. Suicides are up too in that time ...

In 1971, a British doctor was trying to puzzle out a mystery: How can a child with no signs of external trauma or injury present with bleeding between the skull and brain? That doctor, A. Norman ...

A series of articles published in open access journal mBio underscores the variety in opinion on whether a transmissible H5N1 strain should be studied. Will this year’s Nobel Prizes go to GLP-1 ...

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I t is a truth universally acknowledged that an explosion is “a kind of collision.” OK, so maybe it’s a truth universally acknowledged only by physicists. But it’s definitely a truth, right? I mean, ...