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‘The Insect Crisis’ book review: From climate change to habitat loss to chemicals, what’s behind the die off of insect populations?
When was the last time you had to clean bug splatter from your windshield? This ritual was once an inevitable ...
Viewpoint: ‘Bobby’s lies and fear-mongering were sickening and repulsive’ — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s emergence as feckless anti-vaccine conspiracist rattles family and friends
Once a top environmental lawyer who led the charge to clean up the Hudson River in New York, the third ...
Here’s how COVID attacks your ability to smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
NFL ordered to dump ‘race-based’ formula for determining concussion damage, opening door for millions in settlements for retired Black players
The federal judge overseeing the N.F.L. concussion settlement formally removed the use of a race-based method to evaluate dementia tests ...
Will you need a second COVID booster shot? Probably not.
As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question ...
From sex to drugs to alcohol to gambling, addiction ruins lives. This new book ‘The Urge’ offers insights and hope
Our culture, ever on the lookout for easy, unambiguous answers to the predicament of being flawed and often unhappy humans, ...
‘A Genetic History of the Americas’: In new book, geneticist claims first Americans did not arrive in North America via Siberian land bridge, as is widely believed
It’s Anthropology 101. At the end of the last ice age, around 13,000 years ago, retreating glaciers created an inland ...
Are your organic clothes eco-friendly and chemical free? Fraud rampant in India exports, world’s largest cotton market
“This product contains independently certified organic cotton grown without chemical pesticides, chemical fertilizers and genetically modified seeds,” the product description ...
Here are arguments for and against getting your child immunized against COVID
[Soon,] scientific advisers to the [FDA] will decide whether to endorse two doses of the vaccine for children 6 months ...
10 billion COVID doses: As global vaccine total hits milestone, country-to-country disparities remain
10 billion vaccine doses have been administered globally, a milestone that reflects the astonishing speed with which governments and drug ...
What can be done to overcome vaccine skeptics’ fear and opposition? Here’s how one clinic is meeting that challenge
Vaccine skepticism in Los Angeles County, where 72 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, is bipartisan. Vaccination rates are ...
Active grandparents theory: Has evolution programmed us to remain physically active late in life?
Why is physical activity so good for us as we age? According to a novel new theory about exercise, evolution ...
What are the four factors that increase the chances of long COVID?
It is one of many mysteries about long Covid: Who is more prone to developing it? Are some people more ...
Austria poised to become first country to mandate COVID vaccines for adults, with stiff fines for non compliers
Austria is the first Western democracy to mandate Covid vaccinations for nearly its entire adult population, a once-unthinkable move that ...
Do biobanks that accept anonymous DNA have a responsibility to inform donors when they discover a treatable genetic defect?
What should happen when researchers, while sequencing a participant’s DNA as part of a large study, discover gene variants that ...
Infographics: Vaccinated vs. unvaccinated — Death risk differences are startling
Some of the timeliest data on Covid-19 outcomes by vaccination status comes from New York City and the Seattle area, and ...
Can the Omicron variant still cause long COVID?
It is too early for scientists to know much about the relationship between Omicron, vaccination and long Covid. Research from ...
Viewpoint: Do NIPTs — non-invasive prenatal blood tests to find rare disorders — work? New York Times investigation raises doubts
Silicon Valley technology has made [a wondrous promise] to expectant mothers: that a few vials of their blood, drawn in ...
Second pig-to-human organ transplant: GM kidneys successfully implanted in a patient
Surgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported on [January 20] that they had for the first time successfully ...
Should transgender teenagers be required to undergo psychological assessments before receiving hormones? Debate surges
An upsurge in teenagers requesting hormones or surgeries to better align their bodies with their gender identities has ignited a ...
How our perception of ‘disgust’ shapes our behavior
Disgust shapes our behavior, our technology, our relationships. It is the reason we wear deodorant, use the bathroom in private ...
Omicron appears to be peaking
The number of new Covid-19 cases in New York City rose more than twentyfold in December. In the past few ...
Infographic: When will Omicron peak?
Our models project that the United States is likely to document more Covid-19 cases in January than in any previous ...
GMO heart transplant: In breakthrough, man with terminal disease receives heart from altered pig and is in recovery
A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that ...
Considering Omicron’s milder impact, how should we alter our behavior?
The latest evidence about Covid is largely positive. A few weeks ago, many experts and journalists were warning that the initial ...
Omicron is dominating Delta, but future variants will most likely overtake them both
“Omicron is likely to push Delta out,” said Alex Sigal, a virologist at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, ...
What can we expect from two about-to-be-introduced COVID treatment pills?
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon authorize a pill made by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, called molnupiravir, ...
Why overweight people face increased dangers from COVID
From the start of the pandemic, the coronavirus seemed to target people carrying extra pounds. Patients who were overweight or ...
