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More than 150 unvaccinated children in South Carolina have been placed under a 21-day quarantine after exposure in a measles outbreak. State Health officials hope to halt the spread. Last week, officials in Greenville identified an eighth measles ...

Long before brain scans and neural networks, two scientists used chemistry and ink to uncover what the brain actually looks like. In the late 1800s, Italian scientist Camillo Golgi developed a staining method he called the "black reaction," a ...

"On a scale from one to ten, how would you rate your pain?" is the standard question doctors ask to assess pain. The problem is that pain tolerances vary, and one person's "three" may be someone else's "eight." Adding descriptions to numbers, such as ...

Jane Goodall, famed for more than 60 years of work studying chimpanzees, died today in Los Angeles. She was 91 years old. Goodall first headed to Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park in 1960, and much of what we know of our closest relatives on ...

A previously impossible hybrid of a blue jay and a green jay has been discovered. While the two species are closely related enough to produce offspring, their ranges didn't overlap until recently. Climate change has moved the two into the same ...

COVID is quietly surging in the U.S. and the U.K., driven by emerging variants NB.1.8.1 ("Nimbus") and XFG ("Stratus"). Both are found in national wastewater systems, turning up in traveler screenings and state labs. Health officials warn that NB.1.8 ...

President Donald Trump this week declared that Tylenol, generically known as acetaminophen or paracetamol, causes autism when used by pregnant women: "Don't take it," he told them. The evidence presented centered on a study authored by Dr. Andrea ...

Here at Boing Boing, we've discussed misophonia -- also known as "sound rage" or, as this article in the journal PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science) describes it, "a disorder characterized by a disproportionate emotional response to everyday sounds"

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, who holds no medical degree, no certification, or training of any kind, decided this week to lecture pregnant women online about Tylenol, autism, and Donald Trump. "They hate Trump more than they love their babies,"

Michael Pollan's new season of the Altered States podcast kicks off with a fascinating episode about religious leaders who participated in a groundbreaking psilocybin study. The research, conducted at Johns Hopkins and NYU, involved giving high doses ...