Kevin Charles Fleming

Falsehoods spread faster and deeper into the Twittersphere—and humans, not bots, are to blame.

An app designed at Johns Hopkins is saving patients' lives—and the hospital thousands of dollars.

Medication-assisted treatment in Rhode Island's prisons is preventing overdose deaths among the recently incarcerated.

Deadly car crashes are 12 percent more likely on April 20th, and it doesn't take a genius to guess why.

A new study asks: Can countries meet citizens' needs without over-consuming resources?

Did storytelling evolve as a way of bringing together early human societies?

Research shows that machine learning can improve the way we place refugees in the United States.

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.

What happens when a grocery store opens in an inner-city neighborhood?

What Google Street View images tell us about our neighborhoods—and ourselves.

Just how old is the problem of economic inequality?

Melodramas promoting literacy and family planning? Tune in next week.

Can mindfulness help heal our wounded soldiers?

Can a simple Google Trends algorithm beat Wall Street?

Can KALQ succeed where QWERTY fails?

What Google searches tell us about the seasonality of mental illness.

Forget backaches and scraped knees—Tylenol can dull the existential pain of living.

A little intra-office competition can go a long way.

The best way to reduce food waste in cafeterias? Take away diners’ plastic trays.

Getting teenagers off of the couch can be difficult, but the benefits are undeniable.

If you tell us something's organic, we'll believe you—and we'll pay more for it.

High school students who date around spend more time partying and less time hitting the books

Canada may have universal health care, but to get an appointment, it still helps to be upper crust.

Can rebates on fruits and vegetables encourage us to shop more healthfully?

When it comes to advertising, celebrity endorsements mean more than you think.

Providing doulas to low-income mothers-to-be could save Medicaid millions.

When it comes to blood donation, nothing matters more than message.

When you add them all up, what do your Facebook Likes reveal about you? More than you might think

Black-market rhino horns are more valuable than gold or cocaine. Could legalized "horn farming" save the endangered species?

Whole Foods shoppers, take heart: organic produce isn’t a total scam.

British physicians discover a slow-speed approach to diagnosing a life-threatening condition.

It’s not just an affinity for chocolate that seems to produce Nobel prizewinners.

How we feel about romance has everything to do with the relationship we’re currently in (or not in).

Sociologists refute the idea that husbands who help out around the house are repaid with sex.

New research suggests that smoking pot promotes an even more dangerous addiction.

Smartphones are useful for many things. Diagnosing melanoma is not one of them.

Can subliminal bathroom messaging convince guys to actually wash their hands?

Want a real workout? Try Zumba instead.

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.

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.

That sneaking suspicion that you’re a more focused, creative person out in the woods? It’s true.

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 Kyoto protocol is about to expire and that two-week international conference on climate change did little to avert the looming crisis.

How do we treat post-traumatic stress disorder if we don’t first understand it?

Like the morning-after pill, the HPV vaccine doesn’t encourage teen promiscuity, either.

Schools and Wall Street—and now Obamacare—use it, but does pay-for-performance make for better health care?

The American Academy of Pediatrics says docs should pre-prescribe Plan B birth control to girls under 17.