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Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the Kool Jazz Festival; Right: A Kent cigarettes ad targeting Black smokers. Stanford Research into the Impact of …

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum spirochetes, the bacterium …

Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state’s strict abortion laws, but he faces a …

Jorge Rubiano outside a temporary migrant shelter where he stayed after arriving in Chicago last summer from Colombia. Manuel Martinez/WBEZ hide caption toggle caption Manuel Martinez/WBEZ Jorge Rubiano outside a …

Elon Musk says the first human has received a brain implant from his Neuralink company. NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to Rafael Yuste of Columbia University and co-founder of the Neurorights …

Neuralink has conducted its first surgical test of a brain implant, Elon Musk says. An example of the device, whose size has been compared to a coin and which has …

As a girl of 10, Estelle Laughlin and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, then sent to a concentration camp. She lived through the Nazi genocide. This new …

Goats, are you paying attention to our tone of voice? A new study tries to answer that question. It involved 27 goats, a loudspeaker and recordings of the phrase “Hey, …

People with sickle cell disease are thrilled there are now approved gene therapies for the inherited blood disorder, but the cost has them wondering if they’ll ever get treatment.

Women’s rights advocates demonstrate against abortion bans in May 2019, in Philadelphia. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP Women’s rights advocates demonstrate against abortion bans in May 2019, …