In this week’s podcast Tom Jacobs discusses how music creates a cooperative spirit and Emily Badger explains how the concerns over employment lead many to reject greater environmental or safety regulation that likely would benefit them.
Researchers have created a new system of slow-release delivery for anesthetic drugs, producing long-lasting local anesthesia in rats without signs of toxicity in their nerve or muscle cells.
For decades, the ban on using Medicaid dollars to pay for abortions has kept many poor women from being able to end their pregnancies. Finally, some pro-choice lawmakers are trying to change that—or at least show how unjust the status quo is.