Since the start of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus, billions of lives globally have been irreversibly changed. Public health safety measures...

[Originally published on November 7, 1985.] Local family planning agencies and prochoice groups are concerned about a move by congressional...

the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.

When Biomedical Sciences PhD student Yash Abeykoon, a Sri Lankan citizen, traveled back to her home country in June, she...

There’s a new COVID booster shot out there. I sat down with Dr. Joshua Adler, Executive Vice President for Physician...

[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...

In the latest report by EH&S, a surprising and worrying trend was detected.

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...

[Originally published on October 15, 1987.] Synapse has learned that sometime last July three UCSF radioactive waste disposal workers’ radiation...

The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba, which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter; I...

[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...

A sleuthing scientist tracking down culprits of dementia landed the top prize at the 5th annual UCSF Postdoc Slam 2022...

Grey skies, grey bay - it’s a new day It’s sirene: the wind has not been keen

[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1990.] Americans have fewer choices in practicing birth control than people in...

In the summer of 2012, I was a healthy 16-year-old cloaked with naïve invincibility. So, when I was waking up...