Tiffany Shlain shares how living in today's over-connected world has led her family to unplug for one full day every week. They call them their "Technology Shabbats," they've done it every week for over three years, and it's completely changed their lives.

An affecting documentary in which one young person charts their first year on testosterone as they transition to becoming the person they truly are. “For me being trans is a big part of who I am but I wouldn’t want to be born cis,” he said. “I’ve learned so much and I think I’ve had a lot more exper

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Astronomers have found the earliest stars in the universe After picking up faint signals from the earliest hydrogen gas ever detected, astronomers have found evidence of the very first stars in the Universe, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The findings have also unexpectedl

Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, chief academic officer of San Diego-based Scripps Health and digital health's rock star, was featured Jan. 25 on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams. In this interview with NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman, he showed off a number of...

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PrEP, the FDA-approved HIV prevention medication, has become an increasingly popular safeguard among gay and bisexual men; however the pill is not without controversy. CNN's Sanjay Gupta reports.

Over the next four years, Saudi Arabia is set to spend a whopping $500 billion dollars to build a futuristic city, 17 times bigger than London and 33 times bigger than New York City. The goal is to build an innovation hub and tourist destination to lead the world in smart city technology and clean e

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have identified a new type of early human at the Nesher Ramla site, dated to 140,000 to 120,000 years ago. Headed by Prof. Israel Hershkovitz, Dr. Hila May and Dr. Rachel Sarig from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Dan David Center for Human Evolution and...

The commander of a US aircraft carrier hit by a major outbreak of coronavirus was ousted after writing a memo warning that decisive action was needed to save the lives of the ship's crew