With artificial intelligence, machines can now examine thousands of medical images for signs of disease. Will this technology replace doctors – or work side by side with them?
What can researchers learn from how people use emoji during tragedies?
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Everybody does it, but why? Scientists aren’t really sure if exhaustion, stress or some other social factor is at the root of yawning – and how it can be so contagious.
Trump has long talked about halting U.S. participation in the WTO.
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Trump has often talked about leaving the World Trade Organization. An economist explains what it is and what would happen if the president had his way.
The tricky math behind your bus route.
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The gooey treat couldn’t have become popularized without the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, which brought cheap sweets to the masses.
The US suicide rate rose 30.4 percent between 1999 and 2015.
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People may not have a criminal record before they become homeless, but they likely will afterward due to laws intended to keep people with nowhere to go out of sight.
A survey shows that most Puerto Ricans didn’t highly rate the official information coming out of the island. With the Institute of Statistics in trouble, the situation is likely not to improve.
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands.
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Appointing judges to lifetime terms can be among a president’s longest lasting legacies. The overwhelming majority of Trump’s nominees are conservative, white and male.
Despite alarming news, retirees can still rely on their retirement nest eggs.
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Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity; Social and Healty Equity Endowed Chair, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York