Transgender care takes center stage in Missouri campaign to reinstate abortion ban
Supporters of Missouri’s Amendment 3, which would reinstate a near-total abortion ban and place a permanent ban on gender-affirming care…
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Food Aid Enrollment Tanks After SNAP Rule Changes
After President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act more than a year ago, enrollment in the federal…
‘Medicare for All’ Message Attracts Voters Buckling Under Medical Bills
LANSING, Mich. — Christina Starks-Clay doesn’t know how “Medicare for All” would work exactly, but she’s willing to bet it’d…
Florida’s limited ban on Flock cameras only scratches the surface of widespread surveillance concerns
Flock cameras have popped up all over Florida, particularly in metro areas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Automated license plate readers like…
I’m a physicist who worked on the Nobel-winning neutrino search – here’s how a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice became a telescope for ghost particles from space
The IceCube observatory sits atop the South Pole's 1.8-miles-thick pure, clear ice sheet. Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Standing at the South…
Your cells keep a record of every workout you’ve ever done – and those gains persist even after a break from exercise
Your body retains the benefits of exercise even when you need to hit pause. Williams+Hirakawa/The Image Bank via Getty Images…
St. Louis jury awards $10 million in sprawling Missouri cannabis ownership fight
Mel Carnahan Courthouse in St. Louis (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). A St. Louis jury awarded $10 million Tuesday to three plaintiffs…
Missouri voters sent a message. Will their leaders listen?
A polling location in Jefferson City (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). In early August, Missouri voters decisively rejected two efforts to rewrite some…
Former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey makes appearance in Columbia after leaving FBI post
Former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey speaks on Tuesday at American Legion Post 202. Bailey served as the co-deputy director…
Witnessing the Failed Execution of Christa Pike: ‘We Could All Hear Her Breathing’
On Sept. 30, I was one of the seven media witnesses who observed Tennessee fail to execute convicted murderer Christa…
Before Saying Yes to the Medical Test, Know the Risks and Benefits
(Maria Fabrizio for WPLN and KFF Health News) When Lori Baute first learned about precautionary full-body MRI scans, she dismissed…
Why can’t people regenerate limbs like salamanders?
Salamanders like axolotls are champions of regeneration. Jaouad.K/iStock via Getty Images Plus Curious Kids is a series for children of…
Optogenetics wins the Nobel – one neuroscience breakthrough in a line of technological innovations helping scientists map and control the brain
Optogenetics is illuminating the inner workings of the brain. akinbostanci/iStock via Getty Images Plus The brain is unbelievably complicated, which…
Reproductive liberty is about more than abortion
An appointment room stands empty at the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis’ Central West End (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). I am…
Why old dogs might be able to teach Alzheimer’s researchers new tricks
Old dogs have a leg up on mice when it comes to dementia research. Megan Dujardin/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Most people…
Trump drops longtime aversion to mail-in voting with GOP trailing in polls
President Donald Trump speaks at the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on Oct. 2,…