The digital age has made screens more accessible and portable than ever. Although the full implications of screen time exposure on young kids whose brains are still developing is not yet known, there is concern that screen use can affect…
Despite decades of rigorous research, proving time and time again that vaccines are safe, and copious evidence that vaccines work, saving an estimated 732,000 children’s lives and preventing millions of hospitalizations over the last 20 years, the scientific community continues…
A new study suggests that marijuana legalization leads to more cannabis use and perhaps addiction, particularly among adults 26 and older — highlighting a public health downside to a policy change that now 11 states and Washington, DC, have adopted…
At a national science and engineering competition for middle school students, girls took home all five top awards for the first time this year. The Broadcom MASTERS, or Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars, is an annual…
Nearly half of Americans say that they or somebody in their family received a surprise medical bill, and most people worry they would struggle to pay a surprise bill, according to a new poll meant to help reignite the stagnated…
Hundreds of private emails White House senior adviser Stephen Miller sent to a former Breitbart editor show that he recommended white nationalist websites and literature and upheld the 1920s Coolidge administration as a model for setting highly restrictive immigration policies,…
Hours ahead of the Supreme Court hearing arguments about President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Trump on Tuesday morning attempted to smear DACA recipients as “hardened criminals.” But his effort has no…
In a new short film, the pop star discusses her identity and the responsibility that comes with celebrity. The galactic glamour of Afrofuturism may reign over Janelle Monáe’s aesthetic, but the principles that compel her have always been of this…
Jonathan Castillo’s photographs of Angelenos sitting in their cars move nimbly along a knife’s edge between the familiar and the surreal. In a country where people spend an average of an hour a day inside an automobile, the scenes that…
Ten years ago, while on a short winter vacation, I took my wife to see the International Hockey Hall of Fame, since rebranded as the Original Hockey Hall of Fame, in Kingston, Ontario. This was not the sport’s Cooperstown or…