Democrats introduce a measure they hope will find bipartisan support, and a new study explores the economic effects of sick-leave…
How Siblings’ Gender Can Affect a Child’s Development
Whether siblings are of the same sex or not can affect how much time children spend with their parents, romantic…
Haunted by a Gene
For the first time, Nancy Wexler reveals that she has inherited the disease she has spent her life studying.
Persistent sleep difficulties in infancy linked to heightened risk of childhood anxieties
Persistent sleep difficulties during the first 12 months of life are linked to a heightened risk of developing childhood anxieties…
High-risk multimorbidity patterns on the road to cardiovascular mortality
Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more diseases in one patient, is a frequent phenomenon. Understanding how different diseases condition…
Canceled Because of Coronavirus: A Brief List
Here’s a look at some major events around the world that have been canceled, postponed or moved because of concerns…
Pelosi, Seeking to Insulate House Majority, Presses Plan to Lower Health Costs
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan is aimed at distancing vulnerable Democrats from Medicare for All and other proposals being pushed by…
Collective dynamics of active matter systems
A study provides new details about the collective motion of individual agents in a liquid-crystal-like system, which could help in…
How a virus forms its symmetric shells
Viruses have been well studied, but many mysteries linger. One such mystery is how a spherical virus circumvents energy barriers…
Scientists create tool to detect genes associated with psychiatric, brain diseases
Scientists have created a new computational tool called H-MAGMA to study the genetic underpinnings of nine brain disorders, including the…