For most people, knowledge of what the work life of healthcare workers is like comes primarily from two limited points of view: watching television shows and experiencing care for their own patients. The same is true even for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Farris reminds us at the beginning of
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A 4-month-old child comes to the clinic with fever and nasal congestion. Vyonne Njeri thinks it’s just a cold. Then a yellow box appears on your computer telling you to check your heart, because your heart rate is elevated. Njeri is a registered clinical officer in Nairobi, Kenya; she sees patients alone like a nurse
What do you do after you’ve been to the Moon and back? If you are the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission, you can meet the president of the United States and the Canadian prime minister, and even talk show host Oprah Winfrey. The Artemis II flight in April captured the world’s attention when four
The size of scientific research teams has steadily increased over time.Credit: two meows/Getty Few articles in history have had the disruptive impact of the 1953 article by James Watson and Francis Crick. Nature article proposing the double helix structure of DNA1. It is a classic of small team science; two authors who propose a paradigm-changing
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will vote on recommendations for seven popular peptides. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide title toggle title Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images For the latest stories on the science of healthy living, subscribe to NPR health bulletin. A number of experimental peptide therapies are under scrutiny today in what marks the beginning