In the beauty world, women of varied skin tones can now find the right foundations. But can they also find the right skin-care products? If you were to ask some beauty experts, the answer would be yes, but not as easily. “The truth is that a woman of color faces different concerns and at different…
MIAMI BEACH — The image was arresting. Screened on a wall of the Freehand Miami hotel, it showed a bikini-clad woman playing volleyball on the beach. The blowup itself was not extraordinary, except that its subject was black. That photograph, first published in Ebony and Jet magazines in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and now…
For the biggest, and last, bash of the year, or for whatever shindigs you have on the calendar this winter, you may tell yourself you need a festive new frock. But do you really? A little strategic spending will freshen up last season’s LBD, the one before that or the one before that. And who…
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google’s parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers of chess. A year earlier, on Dec. 5, 2017, the team had stunned the chess world with its announcement of AlphaZero, a machine-learning algorithm that had mastered not only chess but shogi, or…
Image From top right: Lanterns for sale at the Luang Prabang night market; view from a boat cruise on the Nam Ou River; local Buddhists waiting outside Wat Sene to hand out morning alms to monks in Luang Prabang; weaving a cotton scarf in Na Yang village. CreditJada Yuan/The New York Times Our columnist, Jada…
The combination of a common cancer drug and another cancer medication is more effective than some standalone drugs in stopping the progression of colorectal cancer. It also reduces unpleasant side effects. A new study identifies a way to improve colorectal cancer treatment using existing drugs. Dr. Richard Goldberg, director of the West Virginia University Cancer…
Some of the biggest news in exercise science this year concerned the tiniest impacts from physical activity, which does not mean that the impacts were inconsequential. It means they were microscopic. We learned this year, for instance, that exercise changes how our cells communicate with one another, as well as how rapidly they age. This…
Below are some of our readers’ favorite nutrition stories from the past year, packed with information that may help you eat better in 2019. By Anahad O’Connor A large new study published in the journal BMJ in November found that overweight adults who cut carbohydrates from their diets and replaced them with fat sharply increased…
Researchers found that changes in marital status affect levels of physical activity in men and women differently. A relationship breakup can change how much you walk. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 60 percent of the world’s population is not active enough. Physical activity is essential for health and well-being. It protects…