Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic story traces back at least to Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who ...

The Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 winners have been announced! This UK-based competition celebrates the best ...

Super PACs are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to help or hurt candidates, as long as they don’t ...

A year after she pushed Planned Parenthood’s sex education programs out of Utah schools, a GOP lawmaker wants to require teachers to show a video by anti-abortion activists.

In the mid-2010s, insects were hailed as the future of food — a way to sustainably feed the world’s growing human population ...

New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food ...

Low libido is often misunderstood as a purely hormonal problem, but in reality it is usually the result of several everyday ...

In a landmark judgment delivered on 30th January 2026, the Supreme Court of India declared menstrual health an integral component of individual fundamental rights, making India the only country in the ...

Netflix has announced the acquisition of InterPositive, an AI-based film technology startup founded by Ben Affleck.

You start to see what history noticed — and what it didn’t. For Women’s History Month, my colleagues and I pored over hundreds of obituaries in The New York Times archives. Our new project, which we ...

While meditation has become a global phenomenon in recent years, Water Meditation is the latest addition to the list, ...

The Women's Initiative at Columbia SIPA's Institute of Global Politics (IGP), together with the Center for Global Development (CGD), today released a new report titled Accelerating Efforts to End ...