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Science & Health

News and updates from the health and science team. Topics include genetics, infectious disease, psychology, and more.

What we know so far about monkeypox

Experts are cautiously concerned, but this is a fundamentally different outbreak.

By Keren Landman

An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough

She says Shell “blatantly doesn’t care” about climate change.

By Rebecca Leber

Pandemic school reopenings were not just about politics

By Rachel M. Cohen May 23

The problem of global energy inequity, explained by American refrigerators

By Siobhan McDonough May 21

Why the FDA rejected fluvoxamine as a Covid-19 drug

By Kelsey Piper May 20

The air conditioning paradox

By Umair Irfan May 18

Flight delayed? Blame a spaceship.

By Rebecca Heilweil May 14

Carrick Flynn may be 2022’s unlikeliest candidate. Here’s why he’s running.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg and Dylan Matthews May 14

A nurse was just sentenced to 3 years of probation for a lethal medical error

By Keren Landman May 13

4 questions about long Covid experts wish they could answer

By Keren Landman May 12

What’s killing the world’s biggest fish?

By Benji Jones May 12

Why pet food is so doggone expensive

By Benji Jones May 12

The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained

By Umair Irfan May 11

The solution to “differential demography” is more migration

By Bryan Walsh May 9

Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it.

By Kelsey Piper May 8

Can we stop the next pandemic by seeking out deadly viruses in the wild?

By Kelsey Piper May 7

This is what we need to invent to fight climate change

By Umair Irfan May 6

The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of

By Neel Dhanesha May 6

How many people have died from the Covid-19 crisis?

By Umair Irfan May 5

These batteries work from home

By Rebecca Heilweil May 5

The horrific bird flu that’s wiped out 36 million chickens and turkeys, explained

By Kenny Torrella May 5

A better solution to America’s big hurricane problem

By Benji Jones May 4

A nurse made a fatal error. Why was she charged with a crime?

By Keren Landman May 2

America is trying to fix the chip shortage one factory at a time

By Rebecca Heilweil May 2

The long-shot campaign to get big banks out of fossil fuels

By Rebecca Leber April 29

Time is running out for Biden’s EPA to act on climate

By Rebecca Leber April 28

Where forests disappeared last year, in one chart

By Benji Jones April 28

One-fifth of all crocodiles, snakes, and other reptiles are threatened with extinction

By Benji Jones April 27

7 ocean mysteries scientists haven’t solved yet

By Brian Resnick April 27

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fracturing the delicate peace in the Arctic

By Umair Irfan April 25

Hacking coral sex to save an ecosystem in peril

By Benji Jones April 22

Yes, you can actually do something about climate change

By Rebecca Leber April 21

How to save the planet from the largest vehicles on Earth

By Umair Irfan April 21

The underwater “eye” that is unlocking ocean secrets

By Byrd Pinkerton April 20

There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls

By Neel Dhanesha April 20

Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells

By Neel Dhanesha April 19

How to build a better battery

By Rebecca Heilweil April 18

The hydrogen energy dream

By Umair Irfan April 18

Tech Support: Solutions for a warming world

By Adam Clark Estes April 18

How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once

By Rachel M. Cohen April 17

How China’s zero-Covid policy is failing Shanghai

By Ellen Ioanes April 16

Everything Everywhere All at Once, explained by a quantum physicist

By Alex Abad-Santos April 15