Stories by Elah Feder

Chemists are hard at work figuring out how to make tattoos last—and ensure they’re safe.

Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a professional astronomer, talks about her own adventures in astrophotography—and offers tips and tricks for new amateur astronomers.

In 1910 an Anglo-Irish woman named Lilian Bland built a plane with little to no encouragement from her family or aviation enthusiasts. Shortly after the plane took off, she quit flying and moved on to her next challenge

A noninvasive test for genetic material could predict embryo quality in IVF.

A new study used machine learning to “autocomplete” the life trajectories of six million Danish people—and forecast when they might kick the bucket.

When symptoms start, COVID tests may say you’re not infected when you really are.

Annie Montague Alexander went on paleontology expeditions most women could only dream of in the early 1900s

Dogs are good for you, science says. 

Problems with the heart, kidneys and metabolic health are all connected

Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?

More than half of our diet consists of foods that have been industrially processed in some way, and they may be harmful to our health

Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition in 1936, showed the importance of good health and developed a program that became the model for Head Start

In the rush to build and train ever larger AI models, developers have swept up much of the searchable Internet, quite possibly including some of your own public data—and potentially some of your private data as well.

The dangerous virus is still here. Here’s how you can stay safe.

The popular decongestant phenylephrine is not effective, an FDA panel found. Here’s what to use instead.

The Luddites did not hate technology—but they did fight the way it was used to exploit humans.

Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people and better health overall.

Scientists used a smoking machine—complete with a 3-D-printed mouthpiece—to figure out how to get the most cannabinoid per puff. 

Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work. 

The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.