An activist Supreme Court challenges federal power to regulate

Your body has an internal clock that dictates when you eat, sleep and might have a heart attack – all based on time of day

Shogo Sato, Texas A&M University

Your body follows a circadian rhythm that influences everything from how well your medications work to the best time for exercise.

Viruses can change your scent to make you more attractive to mosquitoes, new research in mice finds

Penghua Wang, University of Connecticut

Certain viruses like dengue and Zika can make their hosts smell tastier to mosquitoes. Luckily, vitamin A and its derivatives may help combat these odor changes.

Winning the Tour de France requires subtle physics, young muscles and an obscene amount of calories – 3 essential reads

Daniel Merino, The Conversation

Three scientists explain the biology and physics of what goes into one of the world’s most grueling races, the Tour de France.

Abortion benefits: Companies have a simple and legal way to help their workers living in anti-abortion states – expanding paid time off

Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon

Some companies say they will cover travel expenses to help workers in states where abortion is illegal get the procedure, but doing so could pose legal challenges.

How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the ‘evil abortionist’

Margaret Jay Jessee, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sensationalism, it seems, is ingrained in any conversation about abortion because the issue has long acted as a projection of the country’s deepest fears.

Many anti-abortion activists before Roe were liberals who were inspired by 20th-century Catholic social teaching

Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia

A historian explains why the pre-Roe anti-abortion movement was filled with liberal Democrats who opposed the Vietnam War and supported the expansion of the welfare state.

Poll reveals white Americans see an increase in discrimination against other white people and less against other racial groups

Stella Rouse, University of Maryland; Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland

Researchers found political partisanship is a significant factor in determining perceptions of discrimination against different racial groups.

Supreme Court’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ ruling puts immigration policy in the hands of voters – as long as elected presidents follow the rules

Kevin Johnson, University of California, Davis

In the last decision of the term, the Supreme Court cleared a barrier for the Biden administration to end a Trump-era policy returning asylum seekers arriving in the US to camps in Mexico.

What are bail funds? Two social policy experts explain

Cynthia A. Golembeski, The New School; Matthew Bakko, University of Michigan

The median amount of cash bail is $10,000 – an immense sum for people living in poverty. Bail funds, unlike bail bondsmen, don’t charge high fees.

What is ‘heteropessimism’, and why do men and women suffer from it?

Nine vegetables that are healthier for you when cooked

What’s in a name? Why giving monkeypox a new one is a good idea