A New Generation Overthrows Gender
Parents, schools and elected officials are working to catch up and adapt to the needs of children and teens who don't fit into familiar gender categories.
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Yo-Yo Dieting May Pose Serious Risks For Heart Patients
People with heart disease should keep their weight down, but it can be hard to lose weight and keep it off. Now a study shows big fluctuations may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Being A Guinea Pig For Science Can Be A Long, Slow Slog
Brandie Jefferson volunteered for a clinical trial to see if intermittent fasting can help treat multiple sclerosis. Five months in, she realizes that this study won't answer that question.
Scientists Hunt Hard Evidence On How Cop Cameras Affect Behavior
Police departments in about 95 percent of cities nationally have put wearable cameras on officers, or soon plan to. But do these body cameras make neighborhoods safer? Scientists want to find out.
Instead Of Showing Off Wealth, Some Show Off Busy Schedules
Instead of buying expensive things, people now use busyness to show their high status. New research finds that many celebrities use social media to boast about their lack of time, not their wealth.
New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived In The Americas Far Earlier Than Thought
Until now, the earliest signs of humans in the Americas dated back about 15,000 years. But new research puts people in California 130,000 years ago. Experts are wondering whether to believe it.
'Minibrains' In A Dish Shed A Little Light On Autism And Epilepsy
Experiments with small clusters of networked brain cells are helping scientists see how real brains develop normally, and what goes awry when cells have trouble making connections.
What You Learn Hiking The Whole Appalachian Trail
Rhys Hora hopes walking the some 2,2000 miles from Georgia to Maine will nudge him out of a rut. Sara Leibold did it in 2011 and says adjusting to the solitude, and then life afterward, are difficult.
Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward
Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.
What Fish Is Good For Me And The Planet? New Documentary Explores
In order to investigate how eating fish affects our health as well as the oceans, author and fisherman Paul Greenberg spent a year eating fish every day.