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Single use plastic and energy-hogging equipment are among the culprits. Some scientists are trying to find a better way. 

Years of research, classwork, teaching and study can take a stressful toll in almost any area.

Will the GOP hold on to their majority in the US senate? A few months ago it looked like they would while today those results are less certain.

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.