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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.

With rampant unemployment and several meat-packing plants linked to COVID-19 outbreaks, many people are turning to at-home horticulture for relief.

The question is not just about money. It’s also about getting the word out to people who need to hear it and might not get it elsewhere.

Because of the pandemic, researchers are learning more about how falsehoods spread on social media — and hopefully how to stop them.

EPA data for ozone levels and particulate matter doesn’t show big changes, but our bodies may feel a subtle, fresher difference.  

Lack of data gathering could have a major impact on ecological studies and the young scientists who do them.

The EPA has approved testing the new insects in the Florida Keys, stinging some who fought the trial for years.

Naturally, she swats at them from time to time, but it’s her job to get to know the little biters better.

The virus seems harmless, because most people who contract it don't show symptoms. But that doesn't mean that it can’t cause the body serious harm, or even prove fatal.