Cognition
How Much Can We Know?
The reach of the scientific method is constrained by the limitations of our tools and the intrinsic impenetrability of some of nature's deepest questions
Innovations In
Extraterrestrial Life
How Did Life Begin?
Untangling the origins of organisms will require experiments at the tiniest scales and observations at the vastest
Public Health
The Urgent Need to Improve Health Equity
A special package highlights problems and solutions
Public Health
HIV Care Has Improved Dramatically—But Not for Everyone
The HIV/AIDS crisis has lessons for the COVID pandemic and other health inequities
Inequality
People Who Are Making Health Care More Fair
Four innovators are finding new solutions for the problem of injustice
Inequality
Discrimination Is Breaking People’s Hearts
Heart attacks, strokes and other consequences of cardiovascular disease are particularly dangerous for people who face inequity
Public Health
Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue
Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, yet it afflicts one quarter of the world’s population—mostly because of poverty
Mental Health
Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury
The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked
Medicine
Science Still Doesn’t Understand How Our Sex Affects Our Health
Our X and Y chromosomes represent the biggest genetic difference in our species. Medicine routinely ignores their influence. Why?
Medicine
The Quest to Overcome Gene Therapy’s Failures
Tragic side effects plagued the field’s early years, but researchers are finding ways to minimize the risks
