The issue of whether the justices should define sex, especially under Title IX, emerged as one of the key questions during back-to-back oral arguments. Justices asked both sides throughout the ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. As the Trump administration looks to create ...

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most influential writers to emerge from the Holocaust, drawing deeply on his own experiences in two Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Shaped by both ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your column daily in my local newspaper. The people who write in often describe themselves as "healthy" or "in good health." Then they always add that they are taking some sort ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

This video examines why defining religion has proven so difficult for scholars. Early definitions focused on belief in gods, but those quickly broke down under scrutiny. Modern scholars instead treat ...

Spoiler alert: The following commentary includes minor spoilers. But you can’t worry too much about a movie released in 1988, can you? Our lone hero, cheeky yet tough, defends an opulent edifice from ...

2025 was a wild ride for cyber security. The landscape is shifting faster than ever, and several themes stand out when I think about the most important cyber security lessons from the year.

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Remote and hybrid work have become defining features of the postpandemic economy. While most employees seem to love it, the initial optimistic assessment during the pandemic that remote work was a ...