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Science & Health

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

How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus

Exciting new research should make it easier to hold rogue bioengineers accountable.

By Kelsey Piper

How you’ll know when Covid-19 has gone from “pandemic” to “endemic”

It’s more subjective than you might think.

By Sigal Samuel

The fate of the planet will be negotiated in Glasgow

By Umair Irfan October 22

The animals that may exist in a million years, imagined by biologists

By Mandy Nguyen October 20

The myth of the climate moderate

By Rebecca Leber October 16

Startups are betting on a psychedelic gold rush

By Rebecca Heilweil October 13

Why Merck’s Covid-19 pill molnupiravir could be so important

By Umair Irfan October 12

A better way to legalize marijuana

By German Lopez October 11

The US is closer than ever before to making major progress on the climate crisis

By Rebecca Leber October 7

How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

By German Lopez October 7

The WHO approval of the first malaria vaccine is a big deal

By Kelsey Piper October 6

Our amazing sense of touch, explained by a Nobel laureate

By Brian Resnick October 6

How the Nobel Prizes skew science

By Byrd Pinkerton and Noam Hassenfeld October 6

Why the Huntington Beach oil spill is so harmful to wildlife

By Benji Jones October 6

Earth’s climate is chaotic. The winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics found patterns in the noise.

By Umair Irfan October 5

The status games we all play

By Sean Illing October 5

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

By Umair Irfan September 30

An “attack on American cities” is freezing climate action in its tracks

By Rebecca Leber September 29

How telescopes make the universe self-aware

By Brian Resnick September 29

Why you’re not getting a delta-specific booster yet

By Sigal Samuel September 27

Healing, a saga

By Alanna Okun and Aude White September 24

We can’t just run away from wildfires

By Umair Irfan September 24

Florida’s mysterious Covid-19 surge

By German Lopez September 23

The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds

By Brian Resnick September 22

The surprising downsides to planting trillions of trees

By Benji Jones September 22

The fall equinox is Wednesday. Here are 8 things to know about the first day of autumn.

By Brian Resnick September 20

SpaceX’s latest mission was an infomercial (for charity)

By Rebecca Heilweil September 20

It’s time to stop describing lifesaving health care as “elective”

By Andréa Becker September 20

Dirty air can be deadly. Here’s how to protect yourself.

By Rebecca Leber September 17

The dubious rise of ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment, explained

By Kelsey Piper September 17

Wildfires in Australia caused an explosion of sea life thousands of miles away

By Benji Jones September 15

How bad will climate change get?

By Umair Irfan September 10

America needs to decide how much Covid-19 risk it will tolerate

By German Lopez September 7

What an enormous global study can tell us about feeling better during the pandemic

By Brian Resnick September 6

One of the worst public health dangers of the past century has finally been eradicated

By Kelsey Piper September 3

What’s causing California’s unprecedented wildfires

By Umair Irfan September 3

How to think about hurricane recovery, according to 3 experts

By Daniel A. Gross September 2

Why Hurricane Ida has been so devastating to the Gulf Coast

By Umair Irfan and Benji Jones August 30

Should vaccinated people worry about long Covid?

By German Lopez August 30

What do hurricane categories mean?

By Ellen Ioanes August 29

Hurricane Ida could ravage the Covid-strained Gulf Coast

By Ellen Ioanes August 28

The lab leak hypothesis — true or not — should teach us a lesson

By Umair Irfan August 27

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