Policy & Ethics
How Health Care Leaders Can Support Their Frontline Workers
The pandemic has taught us important lessons about the needs of the health care workforce
Opinion
The Body
Why Race Matters in Personalized Health Care
Achieving better, more equitable treatments requires looking at multiple factors that affect populations differently, including genetic variations
Policy & Ethics
Gender-Affirming Health Care Should Be a Right, Not a Crime
Some states are going to war against young transgender people
Space
New NASA Administrator Should Reject Its Patriarchal and Parochial Past
Bill Nelson, Biden’s nominee, exemplifies the agency’s pork-barrel, male-dominated past
Climate
We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So
It’s time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed
Behavior & Society
A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker
Despite what we see in the headlines, the data-driven optimist thinks we should be grateful to live in the best era in humanity’s long, troubled history
Behavior & Society
To Confront the U.S. Border Crisis, Save Central America’s Forests
Climate change and other environmental threats are destabilizing these vital areas and helping drive mass northward migration
Public Health
Coronavirus News Roundup: April 3–April 9
Pandemic highlights for the week
Behavior & Society
To Close the Gender Gap in Wages, We Need to Start Young
As early as third grade, girls ask for less than boys when negotiating
Biology
How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey
Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they’ve finally figured out how their toxins work
