In this excerpt from Shouting Won’t Help, journalist Katherine Bouton surveys cutting-edge research into biological ways to reverse the “sensioneural” hearing loss that she and millions of others suffer, caused by impaired function of the inner ear...
Clinical trial data on new drugs is systematically withheld from doctors and patients, bringing into question many of the premises of the pharmaceutical industry—and the medicine we use
Certain painful experiences are more likely to precede depressive episodes than others. And some forms of loss can trigger depression more quickly than previously realized
This live event brings together noted scientists and intellectuals to debate our future in a climate-changed world
The APA has finished revising the DSM and will publish the manual’s fifth edition in May 2013. Here's what to expect
Lord Kelvin applied thermodynamics to the problem of Earth’s age. Although his estimates are now known to be incorrect by several orders of magnitude, they shook up the established theories of 19th-century geologists...
In Health Care for Some, historian Beatrix Hoffman examines how health care rationing has actually been the norm in recent U.S. history, and how that might be starting to shift as more people accept the idea that health care is a right...
Explorers in search of scientific knowledge, as well as glory, conquered the poles 100 years ago
Explorers venture into uncharted territory to help scientists map Antarctica’s emperor penguin population from space
Kepler space telescope astrophysicist Martin Still looks for Earth-like worlds and tracks the death of stars as he ponders the possible demise of his own program
Preliminary data suggest that all those tweets, status updates and other digital distractions may actually stave off cognitive decline
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An occasional drink during pregnancy is unlikely to harm most children, but we lack the tools to fully measure alcohol's effects on the developing brain
This protein plays a key role in the formation of the nervous system. It has also been employed as an "Ariadne's thread" to explore mechanisms of nerve-cell growth and differentiation
Join us for a live online chat with Edward Phillips, a Harvard physician who helps patients meet weight management goals with lifestyle changes
