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May 1, 2025 -- How much alcohol is actually safe – and are there any true health benefits? We speak with David Nutt, MD, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health, to explore what ...

Acetaminophen has been available since the 1950s and in everyone’s medicine cabinet for so long that some of us treat it as a part of a food group. Now, surprisingly, it’s in the news. Much has ...

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Ibogaine is a Schedule 1 drug in America with no legal medical uses. But the results, several athletes say, are game-changing ...

New research in amateur football and soccer players has identified some potential early warning signs of C.T.E. By Dana G. Smith Two studies published on Wednesday raise concerns about the ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the mind Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow Research on how smartphone use ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

For the first time since ChatGPT’s debut in 2022, a large trove of its user data has been made available to researchers, who attempted to answer a straightforward — but contentious and heavily ...

The first, hazy weeks of caring for a newborn are much like that old children’s rhyme (one we’re sure you’ll come to know). You can’t go under it, you can’t go over it, you have to go through it. But ...