Why An Imperfect HIV Vaccine Could Be Better Than None At All
Public health interventions and antiviral drugs have put HIV on the ropes in the U.S. But it's unlikely that infections can be wiped out without a vaccine.
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Forum: How Discrimination Damages Health In LGBTQ Communities
How do LGBTQ adults experience discrimination and how does it impact their health? Join us for a discussion with experts in a webcast from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health at noon ET Wednesday.
Wrinkling Time To Heal A Family
Showing science's enchanting side has the almost magical effect of opening new portals to what is possible, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.
Have You Herd? Farmer Writes A Memoo Using Cows And Satellite Imagery
A Kansas farmer is becoming somewhat of a celebrity for making agriculture-themed pop-music parodies and calling his cattle by playing Lorde's "Royals" on the trombone. Now, he's making space cow art.
Autism, Haircuts And A Nursery Rhyme
Haircuts can be traumatic for autistic children. It took two years for Australian barber Lisa Ann McKenzie to give Jordie Rowland a cut. The breakthrough was singing a favorite nursery rhyme.
Sudan, World's Last Male Northern White Rhino, Dies
Sudan lived most of his life in a zoo in the Czech Republic but was brought to a conservancy in Kenya in 2009 as part of a last-ditch effort to save his species. He died at the conservancy at age 45.
Robots Are Trying To Pick Strawberries. So Far, They're Not Very Good At It
Strawberry growers are so worried about the farmworker shortage that they're testing a strawberry-picking robot. But while picking strawberries is easy for humans, machines struggle with the task.
The Puzzle Of Quantum Reality
Despite the incredibly accurate predictions of quantum theory, there's a lot of disagreement over what it says about reality — or even whether it says anything at all about it, says guest Adam Becker.
Classroom Skeleton: Whose Bones Are These?
Remember that skeleton hanging in the front of your classroom? In some schools, those were actual human remains. We used science to figure out the story behind one of them.
A Chinese Space Lab Will Soon Fall From The Sky. Where It Lands, No One Knows
Most of the Chinese space lab, the size of a city bus, will burn up in the atmosphere, but some debris may survive re-entry.