Science & Medicine

Indonesian schoolchildren show off the mark indicating they’ve just taken anti-filariasis medication, a drug that prevents just one of the world’s ‘neglected’ diseases. The 2015 Nobel Prize for...

How did the best engineers come up with their ideas? What can we learn from the engineer who built the world’s tallest building or the first highway engineer? These are the questions biomedical engineer Guru...

I used to find the word moist nauseating to hear and even worse to utter—I hate it for what seemed like no reason. When I started telling people how much I hated the word, I was surprised to find that others...

Is biology destiny? Do our genes determine who we are and what we’re capable of? What does the mere idea that they might mean for politics and policy? A lot, it turns out. In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and...

As a physician in the 1990s, Robert A. Aronowitz was taught to put women who were about to go through menopause on hormone replacement therapy. They were being sold as risk-reducing medicines—they were...

“Miss,” she said, as I bit my tongue (I was choking on the worst insult a female junior doctor can bear—miss), “I know that crystal meth is really my problem. I’m going to quit the...

I expected to be wise by thirty-one; I thought I would, at least, understand adulthood. The truth is that I had lived away from family for thirteen years and had been relieved of all eldest-child...