Hispanic women are less likely to get PrEP treatment − new intervention could change that
Despite higher than average rates of HIV infection, Hispanic women have relatively low awareness of PrEP, an effective HIV-prevention medication.
Despite higher than average rates of HIV infection, Hispanic women have relatively low awareness of PrEP, an effective HIV-prevention medication.
As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land areas. A new study shows where the largest changes will occur.
Last year, at least 686 migrants died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Many had the option to call 911 but were too afraid of detection and deportation to seek help.
With Harris and Trump locked in a dead heat, getting their supporters to sing, scream and dance can cultivate an aura of inevitable electoral triumph.
Insurers are raising rates quickly, and it’s not just in California and Florida. They’re often shrinking coverage at the same time.
Cases of valley fever are typically most prevalent in California’s Central Valley and southern Arizona, but they have been increasing in California’s central and southern coastal areas.
Rising electricity demand, especially to power data centers, could make restoring some nuclear plants that closed early financially viable.
A US counterterrorism expert explains the dynamics between Israel, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas – and why Hezbollah presents new risks for the US and other places globally.
The decision will shake up a transfer market that is weighted in favor of clubs over players – it could also benefit leagues such as MLS.
For decades, presidential candidates from both major parties have committed to cleaning up and protecting the Great Lakes. Here’s why.
The Nobel Prize shows that the field of artificial neural networks – and the deep learning AI revolution the technology unleashed – owe as much to physics as biology and computer science.
Two researchers whose work has led to the AI revolution won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. A materials physicist explains statistical mechanics, the physics field behind their discoveries.
Around 20 military sites across Iran, Iraq and Syria were hit in retaliatory strike. But Israel held back from targets that would have crippled Iran.
The votes for Trump added up in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck.
Insurance costs are rising quickly across much of the country. Hurricanes are part of the reason, but it’s the other perils common across the Midwest and Great Plains that complicate costs.
The damage AI algorithms cause is not easily remedied. Breaking algorithmic harms into four categories results in pieces that better align with the law and points the way to better regulation.
If federal streamgages were bolstered by networks of cheaper monitors run by communities, the results could save lives.
Trial lawyers, like artists, have to connect with different audiences and push them to look at legal issues, people and ideologies in new ways.
That depends on how you define ‘normal.’ The baseline has been creeping up as the planet warms.
The Trump administration has different interests and priorities than those of the Biden administration for regulating technology. For some issues like AI regulation, big changes are on tap.
Researchers have applied AI to every step of the drug development process. But this might not be enough to design safe and effective drugs.
19 US cities have introduced local reparations initiatives to address historic harms against Black residents. But designing a program that is both popular and sustainable isn’t easy.
The FBI investigates everything from terrorist threats to cybercrime to public corruption. What does the presidentially nominated, Senate-confirmed head of the sprawling agency actually do?
‘The chief objection to Michigander is that it inspires idiots to call a Michigan woman a Michigoose and a child a Michigosling,’ the American essayist H.L. Mencken wrote in 1947.
These books shine light on a rich history of campus protests in the US that goes back to the 1960s.
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