The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified ...

On October 9, President Donald J.

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

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A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains two big surprises. The first is that sustainable sources of energy have now overtaken coal for the first time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The second is that […]

In a new exhibit, there are old unsterilized knives, wooden canes engraved with graduates’ names, a 1950s-era insulin travel kit and a nurse training manikin named “Mrs. Chase.”

Success in pilot study laid the groundwork for current statewide effort

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.