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First up on Wednesday’s Radio Times, Marty will speak with Mother Jones reporter  ...

Social media can feel fake — until it brings real joy. By being more herself, one influencer found her community.

A compound called Alcarelle, now being developed, may promise a buzz without the buzzkill.

Seminars and workshops on implicit bias promise to change cultures at police departments, organizations and universities. But how effective are these trainings?

How faulty data, Big Pharma and the fallout from hydroxychloroquine has haunted the research world, as desperate doctors and researchers look for a COVID-19 treatment.

As some hospitals became overwhelmed during the early days of the pandemic, educational requirements for residents in especially hard-hit regions were suspended.

The pandemic has accelerated a disconcerting trend: Workplace-surveillance software.

If a text-to-speech clone can capture her in a moment, is there a role for her? And how will artificial intelligence affect creativity?

It takes years for science to migrate into real-life practice. Today, educators are trying to make real-time sense of a disease scientists are learning about on the fly.

How are kids being impacted by the pandemic? Our high school reporters produced short personal essays on ways that the pandemic has impacted each of their lives.

A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon. 

Psychologists have a name for that sense of being different when we’re with different groups of friends: our social selves.

Definitely maybe, research suggests. What doesn’t help: conjugation, and odd bits of practice conversation no one ever uses.

Why sex workers say the laws harm the most vulnerable among their ranks — and put their lives in danger.

In Kensington, Rosalind Pichardo learned, people using drugs usually want to have Narcan on hand. Drug dealers were tougher to convince.