Mosaic

[:es]While it’s healthy to have a variety of bacteria in our guts, there’s one place where a single dominant type is best: the vagina. [:]

[:es]Bushmeat, from wild animals captured for food, is a valuable source of protein in Ghana. But what health risks does it carry, and could it spread disease further afield? [:]

[:es]How discovering an equation for altruism cost George Price everything.[:]

Most people in the world speak more than one language, suggesting the human brain evolved to work in multiple tongues. If so, asks Gaia Vince, are those who speak only […]

When doctors in rural Italy began to see a surge in cancer cases, they were baffled. Then they made the link with industrial waste being dumped by local crime syndicates.

When healthcare is expensive, the Amish culture of autonomy and thrift may be a way to balance communal support and individual responsibility.

A writhing mass of maggots in a wound might seem like a good reason to seek medical help. But sometimes it’s the doctors who have put them there, adopting an […]

As old age approaches, Geoff Watts confronts an inevitable future in the care of robots. But that doesn’t mean he likes it.

Adults with anorexia often have distinctive traits that lock them into a destructive relationship with food. Those same traits could help them escape it.