Google Unveils AI for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules
Artificial intelligence is giving machines the power to generate videos, write computer code and even carry on a conversation.It is also accelerating efforts to...
RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a...
Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness
At 7 p.m. on May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven, then 53, strode onto the stage of the magnificent Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna...
Kris Hallenga, Advocate for Breast Cancer Awareness Among the Young, Dies at 38
When Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer — the most advanced form — at 23, questions swirled through her head: “Why...
Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimers
Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer’s that would mean that up to a fifth of patients would be...
First Patient Begins Sickle Cell Gene Therapy That F.D.A. Approved
On Wednesday, Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from a suburb of Washington, became the first person in the world with sickle cell disease to...
The Ages When You Feel Most Lonely and How to Reconnect
When Surgeon General Vivek Murthy went on a nationwide college tour last fall, he started to hear the same kind of question time and...
Are Schools Too Focused on Mental Health?
In recent years, mental health has become a central subject in childhood and adolescence. Teenagers narrate their psychiatric diagnosis and treatment on TikTok and...
Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.
Some Context: A frightening trend examined more closely.Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Children’s Hospital of Richmond had previously revealed that mortality rates among...
New Mutations Identified in Bird Flu Virus
The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more...
