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Few transplant surgeons are Black. Giving medical students a rare peek at organ donation may help

Few transplant surgeons are Black. Giving medical students a rare peek at organ donation may help

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It’s long after midnight when the bustling operating room suddenly falls quiet — a moment of silence to honor the man lying on the table. This is no ordinary surgery.
Millennial Money: How to adjust to prosperity after poverty

Millennial Money: How to adjust to prosperity after poverty

Growing up without money affects how you live on a daily basis in childhood, and it can have long-term effects into adulthood, even when you begin to have enough money to make ends meet.
Chatbots might disrupt math and computer science classes. Some teachers see upsides

Chatbots might disrupt math and computer science classes. Some teachers see upsides

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete.
Normalizing questions about drinking habits key to successful patient screening: docs

Normalizing questions about drinking habits key to successful patient screening: docs

Many doctors are on board with new guidelines urging them to ask patients about alcohol use, but theyalso note hurdles — people lose track of how much they drink, some lie, and many don't know what constitutes a single serving. Dr.
Next 'Mission: Impossible' delayed a year as actors strike drags on

Next 'Mission: Impossible' delayed a year as actors strike drags on

NEW YORK (AP) — The eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been postponed a year, signaling a new wave of release schedule juggling for Hollywood studios as the actors strike surpasses three months of work stoppage.
Hundreds of photos from the collection of Elton John and David Furnish will go on display in London

Hundreds of photos from the collection of Elton John and David Furnish will go on display in London

LONDON (AP) — Photos of iconic celebrities and historic moments from the collection of Elton John and David Furnish will go on display at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum next year.
Movie Review: 'Persian Version' finds laughter, tears in Iranian American tale of resilient women

Movie Review: 'Persian Version' finds laughter, tears in Iranian American tale of resilient women

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie.
Movie Review: A holiday movie with some bite in Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’

Movie Review: A holiday movie with some bite in Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’

Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in “ The Holdovers ,” a textured, nostalgic and often funny piece about three lonely and mismatched souls stuck together over Christmas break.
Book Review: ‘A Brief History of Intelligence’ may help humans shape the future of AI

Book Review: ‘A Brief History of Intelligence’ may help humans shape the future of AI

Ever wonder how Homo sapiens got so smart? How come we developed actual language when all the other animals didn’t? How about what first made a nematode turn its body in a different direction? Or… what’s a nematode? Answers to those questions and muc
University of Michigan slithers toward history with massive acquisition of jarred snake specimens

University of Michigan slithers toward history with massive acquisition of jarred snake specimens

ANN ARBOR, Mich.
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