Public Health
Fertile Ground: The Long-Neglected Science of Female Reproductive Health
When the discussion of reproductive health is dominated by the political will to control it, gaps in medical research get overshadowed
Features
Fitness
What Is the Point of a Period?
Age-old taboos against menstruation have led to a lack of research on how women's cycles work, with serious consequences for their health
Fitness
Why Are Girls Getting Their Periods So Young?
Female puberty is starting earlier and earlier, with worrying consequences for women’s health
Public Health
Why Women--and Men--Need Better Birth Control
The IUD is held up as the gold standard of contraception. That says a lot about the slothful pace of innovation
Public Health
To Prevent Women from Dying in Childbirth, First Stop Blaming Them
Two thirds of all U.S. maternal deaths are considered preventable. Racism—not race—is a critical factor
Biotech
Pausing Fertility: What Will Happen When the Eggs Thaw?
Technical advances are driving a boom in egg freezing, which promises to let women put off pregnancy indefinitely. But will the science live up to the hype?
Computing
Machine Learning Gets a Bit More Humanlike
How machines could learn creativity and common sense, among other human qualities
Neuroscience
The Roots of Human Aggression
Experiments in humans and animals have started to identify how violent behaviors begin in the brain
Energy
New Fuels Could Make Nuclear Reactors Safer and More Efficient
Advanced fuels could improve the safety and economics of nuclear power plants
Evolution
Animals Use Brain Tricks to See in the Dark
Many animals once thought to have poor sight in low light use tricks in their nervous systems to see brilliantly in the dark
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Automotive
Animal Cameras
For self-driving cars, Toyota tries cameras inspired by creatures with great night vision
Departments
- From the Editor
Unhealthful Data Gaps
- Letters
Readers Respond to the January 2019 Issue
- Advances
New York Is Building "Living" Wave Barriers to Prepare for the Next Superstorm
Beer and Wine Contain Traces of Metal Contaminants from Filtration Process
Brain Activity Decoded to Produce Intelligible, Synthesized Speech
Geologists Solve Mystery of Nepal's "Earthquake Gap"
AI Tool Could Help Diagnose Alzheimer's
Salmon Slime Helps Scientists Count Migrating Fish
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Doglike Robots Learn New Tricks
Cuttlefish Are Dazzling, But Do They Dream?
- Forum
Having Cancer Is Bad. Having Cancer When You're Poor Is Worse
- The Science of Health
The Sleep-Dementia Connection
- The Science Agenda
Investors Start to Force Companies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- Recommended
Humanity's Golden Record, Bubonic Plague in the U.S., and Other New Science Books
- Anti Gravity
A Loaded Gun Can Be Dangerous Even If Only a Dog Is Near the Trigger
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
Mining Silver from the Atomic Bomb; The Perennial Baby-Walker
- Graphic Science
Government Attempts to Silence Science Are Revealed in Detail
- The Intersection
Tracking Your Steps and Other Behaviors Isn't Always the Greatest Idea
- Ventures
How to Get Away from Facebook's "Emotion Pump"
