Parenting

After my son got sick, I dived into the data, and it turns out vaccinated people can and do spread COVID

Deaths of parents and other terrible experiences have hurt hundreds of thousands, so new initiatives are trying to help families in pain

A new law threatens jail time and hefty fines for anyone who prescribes the pills online or by mail

Changes in publishing have altered this genre for the better, so put some books on your holiday list

Justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a case over a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in a Mississippi abortion case, numerous state laws will interfere with key biological and social decisions during pregnancy

Abortion providers are preparing for a surge in demand from other states if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark ruling

The election of Glenn Youngkin and other anti-CRT candidates demonstrates how exploiting white fear continues to galvanize voters

Birth rates in many high-income countries declined in the months following the first wave, possibly because of economic uncertainty

When I was kid, I remember my dad scolding my brother and me when one of us decided to hold the other one upside-down. In that position, he reasoned, we could fall on our head.

          // Editor's note: Brain Basics from Scientific American Mind is a series of short video primers on the brain and how we feel, think and act.

Interviews with parents and siblings of several juvenile shooters reveals that the families never come to terms with who their child really was and what he did