Is a Lab-Grown Uterus the Future of Reproductive Health?

In Before Times, what fascinated me the most about the sense of smell was the fact that odors often trigger strong memories. (One of the scientific explanations for that is that smells take a direct, unfiltered route to brain areas related to memory and emotion.) …

Today, U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna said that its coronavirus vaccine seems to be effective against the new coronavirus variants that have emerged in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Overall, that’s good news, especially in light of the scary headlines about the U.K. strain you might have seen over the…

The new year can spur the urge to make changes to your lifestyle. Diet advice tends to be heavily marketed this time of year with claims of benefits to health and self-esteem. But diets are often restrictive and exclusionary, and even if they provide short-term benefits, they tend to be…

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that human beings can forge connections on screens to temporarily replace real face-to-face human interaction. And I’m not just talking about daily Zoom calls with your colleagues. …

“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. “Everyone telling you, ‘Be of good cheer,’” sings Andy Williams in his 1963 holiday tune. But this holiday season, it might take a little more than a nostalgic song to get…

Men are nearly twice as likely to become severely sick and die from Covid-19 compared to women, research has shown. Now, a new study from Yale, published on Wednesday in Nature, gives new clues as to why men fare so much worse with the coronavirus. It’s the first study to…