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Science & Health

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

AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem

Here’s why you’ve been hearing so much about ChatGPT.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Mauna Loa is erupting in Hawaii. Here are 7 things to know about volcanoes.

It’s a reminder that volcanoes are beautiful, dangerous, and closer than we may realize.

By Umair Irfan

World leaders have 2 weeks to agree on a plan to save nature

By Benji Jones December 7

The US has never recorded this many positive flu tests in one week

By Keren Landman December 6

Lots of bad science still gets published. Here’s how we can change that.

By Sigal Samuel December 6

The mystery of the mimic plant

By Benji Jones November 30

Who gets to keep burning fossil fuels as the planet heats up?

By Umair Irfan November 30

There’s no such thing as a good cold

By Keren Landman November 29

Poor countries are developing a new paradigm of mental health care. America is taking note.

By Sigal Samuel November 28

Why Americans will pay higher natural gas prices this winter

By Rebecca Leber November 24

How to make Covid the last pandemic

By Kelsey Piper November 23

The White House’s plan to colonize the moon, briefly explained

By Rebecca Heilweil November 22

Will America continue to turn away from vaccines?

By Yasmin Tayag November 22

Here are the first moon photos from NASA’s Artemis I mission

By Rebecca Heilweil and Ellen Ioanes November 21

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few?

By Bryan Walsh November 21

The good and bad news for the planet after the latest UN climate talks

By Umair Irfan November 19

Syphilis rates are soaring in South Dakota’s American Indian communities. What’s going on?

By Keren Landman November 18

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

The midterm culture war over plant-based meat

By Kenny Torrella November 18

No one knows what “nature-based solutions” are

By Benji Jones November 17

Space is deadly. NASA’s Artemis mission will help us learn how to survive it.

By Neel Dhanesha November 16

NASA’s rules for astronaut posting: No TikTok, don’t embarrass us

By Rebecca Heilweil November 16

This flu season is looking really scary, in one chart

By Keren Landman November 12

Biden says America is doing its part to prevent “climate hell.” Is it?

By Umair Irfan and Neel Dhanesha November 11

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

6 wins and 2 losses on climate in the midterms

By Rebecca Leber November 10

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future.

By Neel Dhanesha November 10

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

11 midterm races that could shape our climate future

By Rebecca Leber November 7

Money speaks louder than ever at this week’s UN climate negotiations

By Umair Irfan November 7

This RSV season is scary. Hospital staffing shortages are scarier.

By Keren Landman November 4

The FCC wants to regulate space. Have fun!

By Rebecca Heilweil November 3

The surprising value of a small patch of grass

By Benji Jones November 3

Malawi scientists have a plan to fight one of their country’s biggest killers

By Kelsey Piper November 3

Your free pandemic health perks are on the way out

By Umair Irfan November 3

New RSV vaccines are coming. This is very, very good news.

By Keren Landman November 1

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

What’s at stake for Biden’s climate agenda in the midterms

By Rebecca Leber November 1

What Lula’s stunning victory means for the imperiled Amazon rainforest

By Benji Jones October 31

Consumers, not corporations, saved the power grid. What else can we do?

By Umair Irfan October 31

How tech is helping us talk to animals

By Neel Dhanesha October 30

We want your feedback. Help Vox’s biodiversity reporting.

By Vox Staff October 28

Joe Biden just signed an international climate treaty. And Mitch McConnell voted for it.

By Umair Irfan October 28

The strange, savage life of a freshwater mussel

By Benji Jones October 27

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

How logging, a Nike founder, and the alt-right warped the Oregon governor’s race

By Rebecca Leber October 27

Why everybody you know is sick right now

By Dylan Scott October 27