How a Public Suicide Harms the People Who See It
For unwitting bystanders, the experience can be traumatic.
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Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters A Surprising Reason to Worry About Low Birth Rates
They’re linked to an increase in populist sentiments.
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Mike Bradley / Spectrum Students With Autism Face Vanishing Support at College
The transition out of high school can be especially difficult at schools that lack extra social resources.
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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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China Daily CDIC / Reuters The Unconscious Rules of Personal Space
The distance you keep from others is an elaborate, instinctive dance.
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Kenny-Katombe Butunka / Reuters Vaccines Alone Won’t Beat Ebola
A deep understanding of the Congo’s culture and time-honored public-health tactics are the keys to controlling the outbreak.
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Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us ... How the U.S. Became the World’s Largest Food-Aid Donor
For its first 150 years, the nation was reluctant to feed the hungry overseas.
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Phil Mislinski / Stringer / Getty Can Genetic Counselors Keep Up With 23andMe?
The rise of spit kits is leaving consumers with lots of data and few answers. Genetic counselors could help people understand these results, but there aren’t enough of them to go around.
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Viktor Kochetkov / Shutterstock Vegan YouTube Stars Are Held to Impossible Standards
Vegans popular on social media often get bullied when they fall short of their fans’ diet demands.
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Cyrus Sinai Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong
Villages, and sometimes whole regions of the Congo, are misplaced—but the ministry of health and a team of cartographers are racing to get better data.
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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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Kenny-Katombe Butunka / Reuters The First Urban Case of Ebola in the Congo Is a ‘Game Changer’
The stakes are higher now that the virus has reached a city of 1.2 million people.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Is Salt Bad? A Prison Study May Hold the Answer
Research on inmates is logistically difficult and ethically fraught.
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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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Lars Leetaru The Wisdom of Running a 2,189-Mile Marathon
What extreme athletes can—and can’t—tell us about human endurance
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AFP / Getty Images The New Ebola Outbreak Could Take 'Three, Maybe Four' Months to Control
The DRC's top virologist says the response has been quick, but it started late because of delays in reporting suspected cases.
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Moses Robinson / Getty Ebola Returns Just as the White House Loses Its Top Biodefense Expert
The highly respected Tim Ziemer left the National Security Council earlier this week. Here’s who will be taking over his duties.
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Dola Sun The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine
Are electronic medical records and demanding regulations contributing to a historic doctor shortage?
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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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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.
