culture, public health

At first blush, do-it-yourself clinical trials seem pointless and reckless. But a deeper truth pervades the research and the patients who drive it forward.

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Does a delicately orchestrated balance between quantum and classical physics distinguish living from nonliving things?

A close cooperation between science, politics, and economics has helped to control one of history’s most destructive epidemics.
 

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With a promised pay hike delayed, thousands of Indian PhD students launch protests in New Delhi.

A study suggests that, at least in US academia, men and women now receive roughly equivalent treatment in the workplace. The scientific community disagrees.

Did 20th-century pharmaceutical and technological advances shape modern sexual behaviors?

Sex on Earth, Wild Connection, The Classification of Sex, and XL Love

In Chapter 6, “Bateman Returns,” author Menno Schilthuizen surveys the battlefield of the evolutionary arms race that has led to, among other things, such excesses as “traumatic sex.”

An exhibit at the newly opened SciArt Center in New York City showcases work that explores hidden worlds.

Architecture student-turned-artist Macato Murayama creates beautiful images inspired by the intricate anatomy of flowers.

In the book's prologue, author David Waltham compares a fictitious planet to Earth, highlighting the biologically supportive luck that our planet has enjoyed.

How to prepare your lab for natural disasters and cope with unavoidable consequences

Tigers Forever, High Moon Over the Amazon, Earth from Space, and Medicine's Michelangelo

In Chapter 9, “Life Gave Earth the Blues,” author Dorion Sagan addresses the planet’s exuberant color palette, evoking the contribution of industrious microbes.

In Chapter 3, “From Mating to Conception,” author Robert Martin explores the question of why humans and other primates frequently engage in sexual intercourse when females are not fertile.

The NIH remains a Caucasian-dominated workforce. Why haven’t the agency’s efforts to diversify been successful?

Animal-rights activists devastate a psychiatric research lab at the University of Milan.

A new survey finds a high incidence of sexual harassment and rape among women doing anthropological field work.