Heat and Racism Threaten Birth Outcomes for Women of Color
Environmental factors have adverse impacts on pregnancies, and there are clear racial disparities -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
‘Mini Organs’ Reveal How the Coronavirus Ravages the Body
The virus can damage lung, liver and kidney tissue grown in the lab, which might explain severe COVID-19 complications -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why COVID-19 Makes People Lose Their Sense of Smell
We're beginning to understand the mechanism behind this relatively common symptom -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why COVID-19 Makes People Lose Their Sense of Smell
We're beginning to understand the mechanism behind this relatively common symptom -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
Prescribing weight loss to black women ignores barriers to their health -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How It Felt to Give My First Pelvic Exam
As a medical student, I found it surprisingly comfortable, because my “patient” was also my very patient instructor -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Skinny Genes Tell Fat to Burn
A gene whose mutated form is associated with cancer in humans turns out to have a role in burning calories over a long evolutionary history. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Heat and Humidity Are Already Reaching the Limits of Human Tolerance
Events with extreme temperatures and humidity are occurring twice as often now as they were 40 years ago -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What’s the Science Behind Why We Hiccup?
Lots of things seem to trigger the involuntary reflex known as the hiccups, but does science understand why that reflex happens in the first place? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com