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Twenty Years Before the Bestseller, Olivia Ramirez Smith Was Reading Nervous Systems

Before the bestseller and before the film, Olivia Ramirez Smith spent two decades in treatment rooms learning to read what a nervous system was doing.
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This New Digital Urn Makes us Approach Death in a Radically Different Way

The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect...

Why is the U.S. the Only Developed Country Without Paid Maternity Leave?

The United States’ failure to provide federally-mandated paid parental leave is undoubtedly one of its greatest social and economic oversights and has grown to...

This Circus Program Aims to Bring Back Smiles on Refugee Kids’ Faces

The journey of the refugee is a tumultuous and unpredictable experience, plagued by complex and multi-faceted issues that can prove disastrous socially, economically, and...

Trump’s Apprenticeship Program Should Retrain Coal Miners to Solar Energy Jobs

President Trump signed an executive order last week aiming to boost the current number of apprenticeships in the U.S. The executive order removes federal...

These Teenagers Have Invented a Straw That Detects Date Rape Drugs

For college-age women in America, the risk of becoming a victim of sexual violence is 3 to 4 times higher than for any other...

These 3D Printed Ovaries Could Restore Human Fertility

Using 3D printing in medical research so far, we have witnessed the development of the 3D-printed ear, jawbones, skeletal muscles, and vascular structures that...

This Teenager Says He Invented a Bra That Can Detect Breast Cancer Signs

In 2017, approximately 252,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in American women; approximately 41,000 American women will die...

Trump’s New Project: Legalizing Discrimination Under the Guise of Religious Freedom

With the election of Donald Trump came sweeping fear amongst the LGBT activist community that the President would act against their interests, and that...

MDMA is Being Developed Into a Prescription Medication

Here’s something you may know: MDMA, better known by its street name “ecstasy”, is an illicit drug first synthesized in the early 20th century and...

This New Cancer Therapy Treatment Has Left Patients in Complete Remission

The race to find the cure for cancer consists of a multibillion-dollar global research industry that has, in recent years, developed some promising therapies...

This Politician Thinks Punishing Abortion Would Make Women ‘More Responsible for Sex’

In January of this year, member of the Texas House of Representatives Tony Tinderholt introduced Bill 948, otherwise known as a proposition to abolish...

How the Media Should Rewrite its Live Coverage Rules to Fight New Administration’s Lies

Between Sean Spicer’s inauguration statistics lies (during his debut press briefing, no less), Kellyanne Conway’s mythical “Bowling Green Massacre”, and President Trump’s tendency to...