Concerted, politicised assaults on scientific knowledge are intensifying. In the USA, the Trump administration is using the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education policy to ...

Two recent studies from the University of Eastern Finland show that social support plays an important role in health and well ...

No one wants their sleep to be interrupted because they have to use the bathroom. Here's how to prevent that from happening.

The field of Implementation Science finds itself at a pivotal juncture, confronted by persistent calls to ‘decolonise’ and to ...

There was a strange sense of relief at the eighth replenishment conference for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which took place on Nov 21, in South Africa. The USA is by far ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, not only provides deals for shoppers but useful data for economists about the state of Americans' consumer confidence.

Dr. Andrea Taylor is a clinical psychologist at UT Health, and she emphasizes that social connectedness is fundamental to well-being.

Christopher Saville’s paper makes a valuable contribution to the growing field connecting the political economy of capitalism to population health.1 Using extensive, high-quality survey data, Saville ...

University of Otago, Wellington—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke researchers believe the government is breaching the rights of ...

I was left unimpressed by Jukka Savolainen’s essay decrying left-wing bias in academe (“Left-Wing Bias Is Corrupting Sociology,” The Chronicle Review, October 22). While I generally find the ...

The struggle to save public health and biomedical research in the US must be seen as part of a global battle against antidemocratic forces. University faculty and students protest the detention and ...