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As the midterm elections draw near, the MAHA movement is nearly invisible on the campaign trail and struggling to find a financial or messaging foothold in key races.
“Erasing data does not erase need or harm,” writes social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger.
HIV particles budding from the surface of a T lymphocyte.NIBSC/Science Photo Library By Robert C. GalloOct. 9, 2026 Gallo is founding director of the University of South Florida’s Institute for Transl...
Betsy Pleasants, a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of North CarolinaCourtesy James Wang By Justin ChenOct. 9, 2026 Betsy Pleasants was study...
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most lik...
If you want to go to space for any significant duration of time, you should be prepared to suffer from a number of maladies. The zero-gravity (or microgravity) environment of space is catastrophic, in...
A new study that tracked dogs' aging by reading tiny chemical tags on their DNA found that larger dogs aged more quickly.
A new proposal in Congress to scrap a surprise billing ban’s controversial arbitration system will need to to survive an onslaught of attacks from provider groups.
A 9 million-year-old capybara tooth was found in the Atacama Desert, a surprising find given that these rodents love water.
Scientists have developed various AI tools to measure people's biological ages. Would you use one?
The videos are astonishing. In one scene, a senior Chinese woman appears lost in the wilderness of dementia, unable to answer basic questions; in the next, she seems to be lucidly chatting and shuckin...
Damian Dovarganes/AP By Mario AguilarOct. 8, 2026 Health Tech Correspondent Mario Aguilar[email protected]Mario covers technology in health care, including FDA regulation of artificial intelligence; h...
A box of the abortion pill mifepristone.ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images By Associated PressOct. 8, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s mai...
Dengue fever infections are booming in Florida this year, with more local cases than usual and the state's first dengue-related death in nearly a century. Why?
Jonathan Hale was ready to lay down his paint rollers. Hale, a law student turned viral road safety advocate, had run into legal trouble for painting his own DIY crosswalks across some of Los Angeles’...
A predatory mammal-like animal from the Jurassic seems to have characteristics of both a platypus and an otter.
With extreme weather conditions becoming more frequent, having a disaster kit and other emergency plans can be beneficial. Live Science readers shared their thoughts about how prepared they are for th...
Consciousness remains the deepest puzzle in human science. Even as we begin to understand how the brain processes information, we remain as far as ever from understanding why any of that processing sh...
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards has unveiled its finalists for 2026, so let's all have a good laugh at nature.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, best known for his discovery of calculus and ensuing mathematical feud with Isaac Newton, supported Descartes’s view on the separation of the brain and the mind. He invited ...