Science & Medicine

“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal abortion in South Carolina in the 1960s and early 1970s, this woman in her 60s, an oral history narrator,...

Over the past few months, you’ve almost certainly heard someone lament the state of the internet. It might have been a friend or family member, who learned the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica breach was...

Children who participate in gun safety programs often ignore what they learned when they encounter a real firearm, research shows. The report, which appears in Health Promotion Practice, reviewed 10...

The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden as a “unicorn.”1 For Hayden, this Silicon Valley idiom describes the company’s one...

When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own...

In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the war effort, but allowed...

The parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer teens feel uncomfortable and unequipped when trying to educate them about sex and dating, research finds. “Parents play an important role...