David Kessler took GLP-1 drugs to help manage his weight. In his new book, he explains why the drugs are revolutionary, but ...

Katie Edwards has lost millions of dollars in grant money, bringing her research to a standstill. She’s taking the fight to ...

Vocalist Mark Garrett (center) with fellow members of the deathgaze band Kardashev. Credit: Julian Morgan Last month, Mark Garrett found himself in a lab in Salt Lake City with needles jabbed in his ...

Last month, a baby got the world’s first personalized gene-editing treatment. What will this mean for millions of others with genetic diseases?

The first images from the brand new Vera C. Rubin Observatory have finally been unveiled, and they show us the cosmos like never before. The camera captures so much detail that its first complete ...

Illustration by Siah Files Summer is here, which means it’s the season for soaking up the sun. But it’s important to do so responsibly, considering the strong link between sun exposure and skin cancer ...

On Monday, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the panel that advises the CDC on who should get certain vaccines and when. Then on Thursday, he appointed eight new ...

Illustration by Siah Files Whistling is a skill used to communicate over distances—a whistle can mean anything from “you’re cute” to “time to come home for dinner.” There’s a complex series of ...

As a grad student, Suchitra Sebastian wasn’t sure she wanted to be a physicist. But when one of her experiments gave an unexpected result, she was hooked. Suchitra’s former PhD student Beng Sing Tan ...

June 13, 2025 US Health Secretary RFK Jr. fired an entire panel that recommends vaccines. Plus, the EPA moves to expedite cleanup of Superfund sites amid cuts. Former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis ...

Dr. Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Human Genetics and Metabolism at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania.

Credit: Shutterstock For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence ...