Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Food then was interlaced with a sense of danger, the coronavirus potentially spreading (we worried, absurdly it turned out) even by way ...

Despite the title, Marion Nestle’s new book is not about what to eat. “It’s a book about how to think about what to eat,” she said recently from her home in New York City, where she was recovering ...

Nutrition policy expert Marion Nestle says that when she wrote her first book, Food Politics, in 2002, people often asked her what food had to do with politics. "Nobody asks me that anymore," Nestle ...

Sleep in fish may look different from humans, but rest is essential for survival. Here’s what experts have to say about fish sleep. A protective mucous cocoon surrounds this parrotfish as it sleeps in ...

Bald, white, and jacked, Scott Galloway is an action figure of the tech-and-finance overclass. He’s an angel investor, a best-selling author, and a personal-finance guru. He podcasts constantly: his ...

For Young, the All-Star can explore his options next summer if he does not get an extension later this season. That means he'll have to get used to not having control of his immediate future. "I think ...

Braun Strowman was once the W.W.E.’s “Monster of All Monsters.” Now he orders it all on his new TV show, “Everything on the Menu.” By Kim Severson Reporting from Beefy King in Orlando, Fla. When you ...

Every time you eat a meal, you’re hosting a dinner party. Your guests are the trillions of microbes that live in your gut. These hungry microbes, collectively known as your gut microbiome, directly ...

Blob catfish are strange, powerful creatures—but what do they actually eat? In this video, goldfish are introduced to see how the predators react. The results are both surprising and intense. It’s a ...

WASHINGTON, October 1 - An impasse between Republican President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats has triggered the 15th U.S. government shutdown since 1981. Here is a look at what sparked the ...