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With her cofounder Julia Bösch, Anna Alex founded OUTFITTERY in 2012—as an online version of “personal shopping.” With the intention...

The Cascadia Earthquake is long overdue and is expected to hit the West Coast hard anytime between now and the...

My pre-Stroke Tragedy On a Thursday afternoon, August 14, 2008, a young woman on her cellphone ran a stop sign...

For most of us, light is just a convenient tool that we use to help us get things done. By...

You’d think that writing scientific papers today, with all the digital tools at hand, would be a breeze. But you’d...

Online mental health counseling? That exists? I was rather surprised to learn that it actually does. Mental health counseling is...

The controversy over soda taxes tells us why effective public health policies are so difficult to enact. Philadelphia Mayor Jim...

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. –Albert Szent-Györgi, 1937 winner of...

Biotechnology  is going through one of the fastest developments in the century, particularly in the field of genetic modifications. While...

- Exploring the effects of direct to consumer advertisements of pharmaceuticals - Part II: Direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertisement in...

In 2003, the Concorde stopped ferrying international passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at supersonic speeds, while metaphorically demonstrating how much...

Mismanagement of water resources around the world has meant that today more than one billion people lack access to decent...