Meditation is widely praised for its mental health benefits, but new research shows that it can also produce unexpected side effects for some people—from anxiety and dissociation to functional ...

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James Fisher-Clegg is a freelance writer from Vancouver, Washington. He graduated from Eastern Washington University where he earned a degree in Film. In high school, he discovered his love of ...

We asked experts where and when you should get them, and how to lessen the side effects. By Dani Blum New Covid-19 vaccines, which can help protect against the most common variants of the virus ...

Ozempic (semaglutide) helps people with type 2 diabetes lower their blood sugar if diet, exercise, and other diabetes medications haven’t worked. If you’ve just gotten a prescription for it, you might ...

Mounjaro (tirzepatide) is a once-weekly injectable medicine that helps people with type 2 diabetes keep their blood sugar under control. It also helps lower the risk of major adverse cardiovascular ...

In the Mpemba effect, a warm liquid freezes faster than a cold one. Three studies investigate quantum versions of this effect, challenging our understanding of quantum thermodynamics. In top-down ...

Thousands of Americans believe they experienced rare but serious side effects. But confirming a link is a difficult task. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli spent more than a year talking to ...

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...

Cannabis (sometimes called marijuana) is a broad term that can refer to a specific plant (genus Cannabis), the chemicals contained in the plant, their synthetic counterparts and analogues, and ...

Erin Kissane, a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project, rolled up her sleeve for the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine in mid-October soon after it was finally recommended in the United States. Like many ...