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How does exercise benefit health? Molecules called exerkines partly regulate its effects and provide therapeutic targets to mimic the benefits of exercise.

Who are the criminals? News coverage of five former or current presidents gathered for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter never hinted that hideous wars of choice along with massive increases in weapon sales had marked the administration of each.

A Connecticut judge ruled that the lawsuit claiming Poland Spring mislabeled its water and deceptively marketed it can go forward.

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists

When you ignore context, public health suffers.

What can medical workers do to stop genocide?

For a supposed anti-interventionist, it’s odd that Trump is enthusiastically embracing ideas from the era of intense American imperialism.

Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, teacher, organizer, and socialist – passed away December 19, 2024, at the age of 92.

In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them.

This summer, World of Warcraft and Bethesda Game Studios workers joined the growing number of video game developers organizing with Communications Workers of America. We spoke with some of the workers and organizers who have been unionizing