Stephanie Pappas

Soon, precision medicine could help you avoid expensive, risky procedures that you may not need.

Why do some genes get more active when life ends?

Psychiatry’s biggest breakthrough in decades might come from machines that don’t need to understand the mind at all.

A biomedical startup is tuning electrical stimulation devices to your specifications so you won’t need pills.

Researchers are finding new links between specific genes and intelligence. Can we use this knowledge to make people smarter?

Machines programmed to explore could lead to smarter AI — and show us how to unlock capacities lying dormant in our own brains.