Olga Khazan
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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Claudia Totir / Getty / Katie Martin / ... There’s Something About Yogurt
Several new studies suggest yogurt might reduce inflammation—a process linked to different types of diseases.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Rise of Older Mothers
Everyone is having fewer babies in the U.S.—except women in their 40s.
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Stephen Coburn / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Income Affects the Brain
A new study links lower socioeconomic status to detrimental brain changes.
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Gregg Newton / Reuters Professors Explain Why It's Hard to Write Online
They’re not wrong.
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John Vizcaino / Reuters Protecting Police Dogs From Fentanyl
The drug can be extra dangerous when your detective work involves sniffing.
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Andrew Winning / Reuters How to Make Your Open Office Less Annoying
Researchers are testing egg-shaped chairs, retroreflective ceilings, and other ways to help people concentrate without cubicles.
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Mike Blake / Reuters In One Year, 57,375 Years of Life Were Lost to Police Violence
A new study finds police killings exact a toll greater than accidental gun deaths.
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Jason Reed / Reuters The Obesity Cure Is Out of Reach in the Heaviest States
Bariatric surgery works, but hundreds of thousands of eligible patients can’t get it.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor
A new study finds that Trump voters weren’t losing income or jobs. Instead, they were concerned about their place in the world.
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Nir Elias / Reuters What We Still Don’t Know About Marijuana
(A lot.)
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Charles Krupa / AP How France Cut Heroin Overdoses by 79 Percent in 4 Years
And the United States could, too
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China Stringer Network / Reuters The Myth of 'Learning Styles'
A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters The States Where People Die Young
A new study explores where and why Americans are dying early.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters How DACA Helps Curb Teen Pregnancy
Research shows the program, which protects undocumented young immigrants from deportation, encourages them to stay in school and delay parenthood.
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Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters The Diet That Might Cure Depression
Several studies show that healthy eating is connected with better mood.
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Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters Why People Don't Take Lifesaving Medications
People are remarkably bad at getting on and sticking with drug regimens—even when those drugs stop AIDS.
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Kirsten Leah Bitzer America’s Unending Tragedy
Two decades after Columbine, Americans remain split as to whether guns are dangerous or essential—and the school shootings continue.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Blesser's Curse
How sugar daddies and vaginal microbes created the world’s largest HIV epidemic
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Gretchen Ertl / Reuters Why a Study on Opioids Ignited a Twitter Firestorm
A paper on overdose-reversal drugs reached a conclusion no one liked. The pushback raised questions about sexism and scientific methods.
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Andrew Burton / Reuters How the Great Recession Hurt Americans' Health
As jobs evaporated, blood pressure skyrocketed.
