1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (309+ words) Encouraging people to contribute to a common good can have a surprising drawback: a risk that rewards become concentrated among a smaller group, putting the rest at a disadvantage. Put more simply, “equality and cooperation are often in conflict,” says…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (228+ words) Since the advent of robust and widespread vaccines against illnesses such as measles and diphtheria, chronic conditions like cancer now cause the most mortality nationwide. What if vaccines against cancer could have the same success? The idea of vaccinating against…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (799+ words) It has a way of getting everywhere on a beach day—and for some, it can make or break the whole trip. There’s the way it whips through the air just as sandwiches are being unwrapped, the way it turns…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (184+ words) People with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), formerly known as polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), may face higher risks of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) including heart attacks and strokes, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (633+ words) Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common form of head and neck cancer, and the number of new cases is predicted to rise by 30% in the next decade. Despite decades of cancer research, treating OSCC remains a challenge....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (165+ words) Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch used to love the long-running advice column in The New York Times, “The Ethicist,” until 2023. That’s the year he and two colleagues at Penn’s Wharton School conducted an experiment to see whether people could tell the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (113+ words) But are hedges always detrimental? “Some people hedge out of habit, others because they want to be careful. They want to avoid being attacked for being wrong,” Berger says. “There are lots of reasons people hedge, but regardless of why…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (284+ words) The research, published in Nature Microbiology, points to a surprising new place to search for antibiotic candidates at a time when drug-resistant infections are narrowing treatment options. The work also raises a broader biological question: whether proteins most often associated…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (766+ words) On hot days, workers are much more likely to get hurt on the job. Trains are more likely to be delayed, flight cancellations and postponements increase, and labor productivity falls. These are just some of the ways, says environmental and…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (502+ words) The Cocodona 250 has been called The Race that Breaks You. An ultramarathon of 250 grueling miles that begins in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, it dares some of the best runners in the world to endure nearly 39,000 feet of elevation gain through unforgiving…...