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Most Cancers Not Found Through Screenings

Most Cancers Not Found Through Screenings

Just 14.1% of cancer cases in the United States are diagnosed through recommended...

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Long COVID Linked to More than 3,500 Deaths: CDC Report

Long COVID Linked to More than 3,500 Deaths: CDC Report

More than half of the deaths linked to long COVID, 57%, occurred in people ages...

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Climate Change Is Harming Physical and Mental Health

Climate Change Is Harming Physical and Mental Health

A major new study identified four major harms from climate change: air quality,...

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Flu Hospitalizations Drop Amid Signs of an Early Peak

Flu Hospitalizations Drop Amid Signs of an Early Peak

The weekly hospitalization rate tumbled from 8 per 100,000 people to 4.5 per 100,000,...

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Rise of 'Alarming' Subvariants of COVID Predicted for Winter

Rise of 'Alarming' Subvariants of COVID Predicted for Winter

The subvariants are the most resistant to neutralizing antibodies, and we have no...

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How a Shot Support System Helped Keep Me on Track With My Biologic

How a Shot Support System Helped Keep Me on Track With...

Kaleigh Wan is a 26-year-old who takes biologics for her psoriasis. Learn more about...

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Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

With Twitter, FTX and Alexa all in the doldrums by the end of this year, Annalee...

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This was a terrible year for me, but spending time in nature helped

This was a terrible year for me, but spending time in nature...

My mental health cratered this year after the death of my wife, Clare. Getting out...

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Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view of reality?

Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view...

This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the...

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The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there

The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes...

Weird things happen down at -273°C, the coldest possible temperature. Now we're...

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Despite our impact, there were inspiring wildlife wins this year

Despite our impact, there were inspiring wildlife wins...

It is hard not to feel despondent about what we have lost from the natural world,...

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Read Orris, an exclusive sci-fi short story from Arkady Martine

Read Orris, an exclusive sci-fi short story from Arkady...

In a future where climate change has devastated Florence’s iris fields, a perfumer...

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Wintry scenes top Weather Photographer of the Year competition

Wintry scenes top Weather Photographer of the Year competition

Christopher Ison's photo of Storm Eunice and Zhenhuan Zhou’s shot of Niagara Falls...

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Drinking more alcohol after a traumatic event may increase PTSD risk

Drinking more alcohol after a traumatic event may increase...

It has long been believed that PTSD increases the risk for excess drinking, but...

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A noisy flashing drone could stop bats crashing into wind turbines

A noisy flashing drone could stop bats crashing into wind...

A drone equipped with lights and speakers can deter bats from wind farms to protect...

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Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in largest trial yet

Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in largest...

People who received a personalised melanoma skin cancer vaccine on top of a standard...