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The survey also found that trans people who live in their affirmed gender report experiencing less stigma, anxiety and depression.
The followers of QAnon gained national notoriety for their support of former President Donald Trump. But QAnon members are influencing the GOP at the state and local levels, too.
People have painted on cave walls and written on clay and wax tablets, papyrus and paper made from wood. Could screens replace paper someday?
The courts have given the government the authority to hack into private computers unannounced. The action addresses a clear threat, but it also sets an unsettling precedent.
The name change of a local creek in central Iowa reflects broader national trends that are recognizing derogatory or racist connotations.
A proposed ‘historic’ investment in schools that serve low-income children would also give the federal government more power over America’s schools, a political scientist argues.
Many studies conducted in recent years tie lower poverty rates for children to better health and higher pay when they grow up.
The CDC and FDA said the benefits of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine far outweigh the low risk of developing rare blood clots and lifted a pause on the vaccine’s use. A doctor explains.
If humanity wants to travel between stars, people are going to need to travel faster than light. New research suggests that it might be possible to build warp drives and beat the galactic speed limit.
Sea level is still rising, and when that lunar cycle starts upward again, it will mean double trouble for places like Miami.
The episode might have slipped quietly from the news had Nixon decided to not attack the messenger.
An infrastructure boom threatens endangered tigers across Asia. Scientists want to know more about how tigers behave near roads so they can design wildlife-friendly transportation networks.
A public health scholar explores why Asian Americans in their late teens and early adulthood are at high risk for death by suicide.
There’s not much the world can do to stop authoritarian rulers from persecuting their political opponents, as shown by the standoff over Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is ill and imprisoned.
El 42% de los estadounidenses encuestados para un estudio ganó peso no deseado en 2020, de media 13 kilos. Casi el 18% afirmó haber experimentado una pérdida de peso no deseada, una media de 12 kilos.
Black Americans have worse health outcomes by many measures. To draw attention to that fact, the CDC and communities across the country have called racism a public health threat.
Two energy and climate policy experts take a closer look at the Leaders Summit on Climate, the US pledge and today’s industrial reality.
The history and weight of US press freedom played a powerful, but unacknowledged, role in the conviction of Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd.
The growing rift between Republicans and US businesses has widened in recent weeks over efforts to restrict voting across the country.
Biden’s $4 billion plan to fight crime, corruption and poverty in Central America is massive. But aid can’t build viable democracies if ‘predatory elites’ won’t help their own people.
Researchers have grown the first human-monkey hybrid embryos as well as mouse embryos in artificial wombs late into development. These biomedical breakthroughs raise different ethical quandaries.
Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it’s in.
Long distances often preclude families in the Motor City from sending their kids to the best schools in the area, new research shows.
Scholars have scoured the works of the great playwright for clues about his faith. A scholar of theology and Shakespeare’s works says it isn’t as simple as that.