The HuffPost co-founder is now focusing on AI and health — but she’s keeping an eye on agency and human nature.

From treating specific diseases to targeting aging itself, Progress Conference 2025 explored the many routes to extending life.

An ode to the data visualization tools that help us see what is too vast, complex, or interconnected for the naked eye — from planetary systems to pandemic trends.

It's time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.

In this excerpt from "The Formula for Better Health," Tom Frieden explores how Alice Hamilton transformed public health in her fight against lead poisoning.

Here in 2025, many of us claim to come to our own conclusions by doing our own research. Here's why we're mostly deluding ourselves.

For centuries, vaccines have been the top life-saving, expert medical intervention known to humans. How can individuals make the right call?

Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.

In his new book, the popular science writer tells the story of how scientists discovered the “gaseous ocean” we all swim in — and the trillions of invisible life forms we share it with.

A new bill introduced into the US Senate claims to make us safer. Instead, it would destroy all virology research, and for no real cause.

We've wasted our time and resources ideologically policing and punishing each other for far too long. Here's a better route to prosperity.

We're all entitled to our own opinions, no matter how ill-informed they are. But facts are facts; we can't just choose the ones we prefer.

Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.

With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era Lysenkoism.

Today's pseudoscience-ridden wellness industry owes a great debt to its forefathers.

“The truth is there are very few supplements that have good evidence-based medicine to support them.”

The Roman Empire at one point emitted roughly 3,600 tons of lead dust per year, causing “widespread cognitive decline.”

Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.

A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.

For a substantial part of human history, people thought smoking tobacco was perfectly healthy. Native American tribes, who introduced the tobacco plant to Europeans and — by extension, the rest […]

In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.

The integration of artificial intelligence into public health could have revolutionary implications for the global south—if only it can get online.

They’re in our brains, hearts, and blood — but what are they doing to us?

On November 25, U.N. members will meet in South Korea to cap off a series of meetings aiming to reduce global plastic pollution.

"I have a friend who thinks vaccines cause autism," writes Nina. "What can I do?"

Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that.

In partisan political times, recognizing the scientific truth is more important than ever. Scientists must be vocal and clear about reality.

Differences in certain avian and mammalian proteins explain why avian influenza doesn't (typically) infect humans.

How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.

You could call this rectangle covering parts of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula the “Oven Window.”