Nature does not have to play fair with our puny human brains | Continue reading
Nature does not have to play fair with our puny human brains | Continue reading
This mathematician turns her research into fashion and toys | Continue reading
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It has little power to prevent the spread of pathogens to humans | Continue reading
The CITES treaty that regulates trade in international wildlife has little power to prevent the spread of pathogens to humans | Continue reading
We can’t visit the dying in hospitals, and we can’t gather for funerals—but technology can lessen the pain | Continue reading
A new tool gauges the danger that someone may be infected with COVID-19 in different sized groups | Continue reading
The coronavirus has created a survival crisis for rural communities and, consequently, for wildlife | Continue reading
NIH Director Francis Collins, winner of 2020 Templeton Prize, answers questions about God, free will, evil, altruism and his Christian faith in a 2006 interview. | Continue reading
We need to get patients out of the hospital as quickly as possible if we want them to heal | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic can damage the aging brain both directly and indirectly | Continue reading
The drop in CO 2 emissions we’re seeing is temporary—but it shows us what might be possible | Continue reading
Special report: How the coronavirus pandemic started, where it’s headed, and how scientists are fighting back | Continue reading
Human lives, human touch and direct human interactions are gone—and so is the sense that we can trust our leaders to act quickly and effectively in the face of a catastrophe | Continue reading
Here are four questions we need to ask ourselves | Continue reading
Here are four questions we need to ask ourselves | Continue reading
High-speed sequencing technology, placed strategically in urban hospitals, could flag a new pathogen before it has a chance to spread widely | Continue reading
Virtual reality could help domestic batterers identify with victims | Continue reading
Ben Orlin shares his favorite fractal curve | Continue reading
She believed in the great potential for growth and development | Continue reading
Spring was always the annual end point for my work studying owls in Russia; this year, the coronavirus ensured that the expedition would leave me behind | Continue reading
Here are resources for students, parents and other learners | Continue reading
Biology writer Carl Zimmer answers questions on heredity, CRISPR, human enhancement, immortality and the coronavirus | Continue reading
Pandemic news highlights for the week | Continue reading
The viruses they carry spill over into humans mostly when we encroach on their territory or drag them into ours—and bats do great good as well | Continue reading
Many of us underestimate how positively others will respond when we try it | Continue reading
A physician's suicide reminds us reminds us that the plague of COVID-19 creates deep emotional wounds in health care workers | Continue reading
The disease's unequal impacts on different segments of the population is illuminating longstanding structural injustices | Continue reading
We shouldn’t risk our genetic privacy to find it | Continue reading
Platforms that enable nuanced forms of crowdsourcing are opening a new era in epidemiological forecasting | Continue reading
Patients held for psychiatric care are especially vulnerable; we must act now to support them | Continue reading
Computer models could warn of upcoming surges, allowing public health officials to take early preventive action | Continue reading
They’ve slowed for now, but as we begin to emerge from our homes, we need to brace for a resurgence | Continue reading
They’ve slowed for now, but as we begin to emerge from our homes, we need to brace for a resurgence | Continue reading
A new global survey could help us understand why some people follow to rules for avoiding COVID-19 and others don’t | Continue reading
Healthcare already has effective treatment tools, including medications, but many people who could benefit are reluctant to seek them out | Continue reading
If we’re ever going to colonize the Red Planet, we’ll need to produce food on site. Also, beer | Continue reading
If we’re ever going to colonize the Red Planet, we’ll need to produce food on site. Also, beer | Continue reading
Puerto Rico’s seismic sequence is entering its fifth month and is still generating large earthquakes. Here’s the tectonic story | Continue reading
A weight-lifting guru, author and podcaster calls the U.S. response to the pandemic an “exercise in hysteria" that might do more harm than good | Continue reading
Much like their human counterparts, chimpanzee mothers provide their offspring with far more than just food | Continue reading
The 100th anniversary of astronomy’s “Great Debate” prompts thoughts on the hunt for life in the universe | Continue reading
Pandemic news highlights of the week | Continue reading
It’s essential if we’re going to protect our planet | Continue reading
Safeguarding public health requires rethinking our relationship to the environment and the inequities that drive its destruction | Continue reading
An astrophysicist traces genealogy and art history to discover the origin of the famous motto | Continue reading
The pandemic is amplifying nearly every disadvantage that women in STEM already face—but institutions and the scientific community can help | Continue reading