Month: March 2022

If a waiter at a restaurant brought you a murky, stinky glass of water, that would be unacceptable. But yet, many waiters — at least “Covid-19 proved bad indoor air quality makes us sick. We can fix that.”

Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 can shed their masks, there “Vaccine passports can liberate America”

Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people, most of them children. There has been significant progress against the disease in the past few decades “Why the WHO approval of the first malaria vaccine is a big deal”

Before 2010, scientists knew very little about how the sensation of touch begins its journey into a person’s consciousness. They knew that nerve endings help “Our amazing sense of touch, explained by a Nobel laureate”

You’ve probably heard it by now: Covid-19 is not going away. The broad consensus among experts is that it’s not realistic to think we’re going “How you’ll know when Covid-19 has gone from “pandemic” to “endemic””

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, has made our future vulnerability to biological pathogens — and what we can learn to help prevent the next “How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus”

It’s become a time-honored tradition in certain segments of American society: two families cross-reference their respective calendars to find a spot free of school or “Playdates are ruining all the fun”

“David is a great transplant surgeon. Five of his patients need new parts — one needs a heart, the others need, respectively, liver, stomach, spleen, “Is it okay to harvest pig kidneys to save human lives?”

After a major setback on a historic package of climate legislation, President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are scrambling to find other ways to “Biden’s Plan B for the climate crisis, explained”

Four executives from Big Oil — “the richest, most powerful industry in human history,” according to environmentalist Bill McKibben — testified before Congress on Thursday “What the oil industry still won’t tell us”