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How drugs that hit targets for depression and kidney disease could help people suffering physical pain.

Crossing the Atlantic in a 3.5-foot boat is a risky trip that will be punishing on the body. Andrew Bedwell is stoked.

The maniacally focused founder of Insilico Medicine is going all in on AI to discover new medicines and extend lifespan.

A new technique for same sex conception for men raises some tricky questions.

A new generation of scientists raised on Reddit and Instagram are exploring crowdsourced models of scientific peer review.

Humans are forever altering these mythical islands through unnatural selection. Rewilding them entails finding a delicate balance between the needs of turtles, tourists—and local residents.

As organ-on-a-chip technology comes of age, the bipartisan FDA Modernization Act 2.0 would remove the requirement that new drugs must undergo animal testing before human clinical trials.

An emerging obsession with “clean eating” may be fueled by a less than healthy fitness culture.

Scientists are not routinely sloppy, clinicians don’t usually cheat, and clinical research is generally well designed. So why is it so hard to reproduce results?

Surprising new science on the benefits of heat therapy for peak-performing athletes—and people in hospitals.

The artist and writer is thinking about multiple intelligences, life at the end of the future, and new ways of being.

An insider’s view of the effort to decode and model the entire immune system.

Maybe the science is finally catching up with BioViva CEO Elizabeth Parrish.

A new wave of spit-and-swab home testing kits promises to give individuals more control over their own health.

Our writer unpacks the data behind the new vaccines and wonders what happened to nuance in the CDC’s recommendations.