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Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds
Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, the World Health Organization says.
A New Hippocratic Oath Asks Doctors To Fight Racial Injustice And Misinformation
A New Hippocratic Oath Asks Doctors To Fight Racial Injustice And Misinformation
A new oath asks physicians to eliminate their personal biases, combat disinformation to improve health literacy and be an ally to minorities and other underserved groups in society.
Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA
The appointment of a climate change denier to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration comes as Americans face profound threats stoked by climate change, from the vast, deadly wildfires in the West to an unusually active hurricane season in the South and East.
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said.
In Defense Of Coronavirus Testing Strategy, Administration Cited Retracted
In Defense Of Coronavirus Testing Strategy, Administration Cited Retracted
When asked why the United States didn't import coronavirus tests when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ran into difficulty developing its own, government officials have frequently questioned the quality of the foreign-made alternatives. But NPR has learned that the key study they point to was retracted just days after it was published online in early March.
Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds
A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported.
Zika: Researchers Are Learning More About The Long-Term Consequences For Children
In the three years since it ended, the pandemic has become an object of obsession for scientists, who have published more than 6,000 research papers about it. What did they conclude?
What's Behind The Research Funding Gap For Black Scientists?
Racial disparities in funding may be partly caused by topic choice, study finds.
Academic Science Rethinks All-Too-White 'Dude Walls' Of Honor
A few years ago, TV celebrity Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University to hand out a prize that's given each year to a prominent female scientist. As Maddow entered the auditorium, someone overheard her say, "What is up with the dude wall?"
Cornell Food Researcher's Downfall Raises Larger Questions For Science
The fall of a prominent food and marketing researcher may be a cautionary tale for scientists who are tempted to manipulate data and chase headlines.
Scientists Aim To Pull Peer Review Out Of The 17th Century
Some scientists want to change the old-fashioned way scientific advancements are evaluated and communicated. But they have to overcome the power structure of the traditional journal vetting process.
Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?
Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. King suggests that the answer might point toward benefits of a slower pace of teaching in the college classroom.
Precision Medical Treatments Have A Quality Control Problem
The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that.
New Study Highlights Strong Link Between Basic Research And Inventions
A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected.
Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
A new book by actor Alan Alda is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.
The Digital Industrial Revolution
As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.
How A Budget Squeeze Can Lead To Sloppy Science And Even Cheating
The hypercompetitive world of biomedical research occasionally drives scientists to cheat. More often, scientists make decisions that undercut their results. That can lead colleagues astray.
How Flawed Science Is Undermining Good Medicine
U.S. taxpayers pay $30 billion a year to fund biomedical research aimed at finding better treatments. But competition for scarce funding and tenure may be prompting some scientists to cut corners.
Vera Rubin, Who Confirmed Existence Of Dark Matter, Dies At 88
Vera Rubin, Who Confirmed Existence Of Dark Matter, Dies At 88
The astrophysicist's groundbreaking research on spiral galaxies provided evidence of invisible dark matter. She was a pioneer in an era when women were excluded from many astronomy programs.
Top Medical Journals Give Women Researchers Short Shrift
Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.
Merging Career And Motherhood, In Simultaneous Practice
Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
Scientists Say It's Time To End 'Parachute Research'
Researchers drop in. They take specimens. And they head home and don't share. That's no way to fight an epidemic. Can they do things differently when it comes to Zika?
