Fake News Is Our Fault
Falsehoods spread faster and deeper into the Twittersphere—and humans, not bots, are to blame.
Kevin Charles Fleming
Kevin Charles Fleming is a journalist, writer, and freelance creative. He was born in Nashville, raised in Minneapolis, and educated at Middlebury College, in Vermont. He lives in Boulder.
The Future of Health-Care Technology Is Already in Your Pocket
An app designed at Johns Hopkins is saving patients' lives—and the hospital thousands of dollars.
Is the Secret to Solving the Opioid Crisis More Opioids?
Medication-assisted treatment in Rhode Island's prisons is preventing overdose deaths among the recently incarcerated.
Driving on 4/20 Is Hazardous for Your Health
Deadly car crashes are 12 percent more likely on April 20th, and it doesn't take a genius to guess why.
Are We Defining Economic Success All Wrong?
A new study asks: Can countries meet citizens' needs without over-consuming resources?
Using Data to Help Migrants Find Work
Research shows that machine learning can improve the way we place refugees in the United States.
Even Apple Investors Are Worried About Smartphone Addiction
Two of Apple's largest investors called on the tech giant to take smartphone addiction more seriously. Research shows they're right to be concerned.
Breaking the Drought in Food Deserts
What happens when a grocery store opens in an inner-city neighborhood?
Counting Cars to Understand Demographics
What Google Street View images tell us about our neighborhoods—and ourselves.
Soap Operas Can Save the World
Melodramas promoting literacy and family planning? Tune in next week.
Just Breathe: Can Mindfulness Help Heal Our Wounded Soldiers?
Can mindfulness help heal our wounded soldiers?
Can a Simple Google Trends Algorithm Beat Wall Street?
Can a simple Google Trends algorithm beat Wall Street?
Is Summer the Sanest Season?
What Google searches tell us about the seasonality of mental illness.
A Painkiller for Human Angst?
Forget backaches and scraped knees—Tylenol can dull the existential pain of living.
The Weight-Loss Incentive That Works Better Than Cash
A little intra-office competition can go a long way.
Reduce Food Waste by Removing Plastic Trays From Cafeterias
The best way to reduce food waste in cafeterias? Take away diners’ plastic trays.
Help Others to Help Yourself: High School Students Benefit From Volunteer Work
Getting teenagers off of the couch can be difficult, but the benefits are undeniable.
Labeling Food as "Organic" Fools Consumers
If you tell us something's organic, we'll believe you—and we'll pay more for it.
Pitfalls of the Teen Dating Scene
High school students who date around spend more time partying and less time hitting the books
Bias Seen Even in with Canada's Universal Health Care
Canada may have universal health care, but to get an appointment, it still helps to be upper crust.
Rebates at Grocery Stores Foster Healthy Eating
Can rebates on fruits and vegetables encourage us to shop more healthfully?
Gary Lineker Wants You to Eat Your Walkers Crisps
When it comes to advertising, celebrity endorsements mean more than you think.
Doulas Do It Better
Providing doulas to low-income mothers-to-be could save Medicaid millions.
Big Data, Big Brother and the 'Like' Button
When you add them all up, what do your Facebook Likes reveal about you? More than you might think
Wanna Save the Rhino? Legalize Horn Farming
Black-market rhino horns are more valuable than gold or cocaine. Could legalized "horn farming" save the endangered species?
Organic Food Fight, Part Two
Whole Foods shoppers, take heart: organic produce isn’t a total scam.
How Speed Bumps Help Predict Appendicitis
British physicians discover a slow-speed approach to diagnosing a life-threatening condition.
Milk a Genius Makes
It’s not just an affinity for chocolate that seems to produce Nobel prizewinners.
Who's Happier on Valentine's Day? The Single or the Hitched?
How we feel about romance has everything to do with the relationship we’re currently in (or not in).
Men: Want More Sex? Don’t Do the Laundry!
Sociologists refute the idea that husbands who help out around the house are repaid with sex.
Marijuana: the Gateway Drug (to Nicotine)
New research suggests that smoking pot promotes an even more dangerous addiction.
Are iPhone Apps Good For Your Health
Smartphones are useful for many things. Diagnosing melanoma is not one of them.
How Do We Get More People to Wash Their Hands?
Can subliminal bathroom messaging convince guys to actually wash their hands?
The Audacity of Brainless Slime Mold
Dispatches from the weird world of unicellular biology, where essentially brainless critters do a fair job of helping us understand aspects of human behavior--such as how we use memory.
Will DNA Be the Hard Drive of the Future?
If you can say it in words, you can store it in nucleotides, experimenters have confirmed. And is the new storage medium durable? You bet your Jurassic Park it is.
The Tyranny of Today: Not Who You Were, Nor Who You'll Be
Making sense of who we were, and who we’re likely to become.
Put Down the iPad, Lace Up the Hiking Boots
That sneaking suspicion that you’re a more focused, creative person out in the woods? It’s true.
Unsportsmanlike Conduct, Off the Field
Domestic violence in the U.K. is said to spike every time England loses a football match. A BBC reporter and a statistician team up to uncover the full story.
The Other "Cliff"
The Kyoto protocol is about to expire and that two-week international conference on climate change did little to avert the looming crisis.
Soldiers Coming Home Shell-Shocked
How do we treat post-traumatic stress disorder if we don’t first understand it?
Does the NFL Have Brain Damager?
No, Kansas City Chiefs player Javon Belcher's murder-suicide probably didn't have anything to do with traumatic brain injury. But the league still has a problem on its hands.
Sex and the Teenage Girl, Redux
Like the morning-after pill, the HPV vaccine doesn’t encourage teen promiscuity, either.
Performance Pay Comes to the Hospital
Schools and Wall Street—and now Obamacare—use it, but does pay-for-performance make for better health care?
Pediatrics group: Let teens have birth control for when they need it
The American Academy of Pediatrics says docs should pre-prescribe Plan B birth control to girls under 17.