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Book review: Who knew the world of paleoanthropology could be so cutthroat?
[T]he scientists looking for ever older bones of our ancestors always seem to be squabbling. At least that’s their reputation ...
Recovery is elusive for this COVID longhauler
Since getting sick with the coronavirus in March, Mr. Long, 54, has fallen into a distressing new cycle — one ...
Where does my body begin and machine end? How AI is keeping my pancreas, and me, alive
I have Type 1 diabetes, so my pancreas does not produce the life-essential insulin that a normal pancreas secretes. Instead, ...
COVID vaccine benefits appear to outweigh minimal potential dangers for pregnant and breastfeeding women
[T]he American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the S.M.F.M. and other organizations have been calling on the F.D.A. to allow pregnant and lactating ...
How the Chinese government suppressed the real story of the country’s coronavirus catastrophe
The news was spreading quickly that Li Wenliang, a doctor who had warned about a strange new viral outbreak only to be ...
‘The Pattern Seekers’: What autism can tell us about the evolutionary tipping point that made us human
[In “The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention,” psychologist Simon] Baron-Cohen argues that humans split off from all other ...
’25 days in China that changed the world’: How the country’s COVID bungling helped accelerate a global disaster
[The January 23 Wuhan] lockdown was the first decisive step in saving China. But in a pandemic that has since ...
Africa has largely avoided the COVID scourge to date. Here’s why that may change
In South Africa, a crush of new cases that spread from Port Elizabeth is growing exponentially across the nation, with ...
Which provides longer-lasting immunity: Getting COVID or a vaccine?
Which produces a stronger immune response: a natural infection or a vaccine? The short answer: We don’t know. But Covid-19 ...
COVID-19 vaccine tracker: What’s the status of all vaccines in development?
Vaccines typically require years of research and testing before reaching the clinic, but in 2020, scientists embarked on a race ...
Interactive: What’s your place in the COVID-19 vaccine line?
Health officials are considering vaccine timelines that give some Americans priority over others. If you’re a healthy American, you may ...
What you need to know about the fast-mutating strains of COVID-19
It’s still unclear how successful a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, can be. A lot will depend ...
Voter fraud truthers add vaccine conspiracies to their social media disinformation efforts
As Mr. Trump’s challenges to the election’s results have been knocked down and the Electoral College has affirmed President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s ...
Ellume: 91%+ accurate at-home COVID test given first emergency authorization in the US
The Food and Drug Administration on [December 15] issued an emergency authorization for the country’s first coronavirus test that can run from ...
Viewpoint: How Trump and Steve Bannon aided by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and Lou Dobbs promoted the ‘China created COVID in a lab’ conspiracy myth
[Chinese researcher Dr. Li-Meng Yan] appeared in the United States on Fox News making the unsubstantiated claim to millions that ...
Vaccine diplomacy: China poised to introduce first COVID shots to Latin America, increasing its regional influence
China is actively making “deals to try to get the vaccine deployed and employed” around the globe to stop the ...
As COVID is transmitted via airborne particles, there’s no evidence that sanitizing surfaces lowers risk of infection
All over the world, workers are soaping, wiping and fumigating surfaces with an urgent sense of purpose: to fight the ...
Viewpoint: If you care about science and the well-being of our children, don’t close schools
We should not be going to public events. We should not be eating indoors at restaurants. We should not be ...
Women and HIV: 6 shots a year shown to be more effective than daily pill
Women have had only one approved option for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a course of drugs taken to prevent contracting ...
After a vaccine or infection, how long will immunity to COVID last? It could be years, hopeful new data suggest
Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent ...
Childhood asthma linked to maternal depression during pregnancy
Researchers had the parents of 4,231 children fill out well-validated questionnaires on psychological stress in the second trimester of pregnancy, ...
Long hauler phenomenon explained? In some COVID survivors, normally protective antibodies turn on their own cells
At some point, the body’s defense system in [some COVID survivors shifts] into attacking itself, rather than the virus, [a ...
Viewpoint: Not all the COVID news is gloomy
Clearly, the pandemic has not ended. So far some 215,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus, and reliable estimates suggest ...
First new human organs found in three centuries – camera-shy salivary glands in your head
A team of researchers in the Netherlands has discovered what may be a set of previously unidentified organs: a pair ...
Brain fog: COVID’s lingering threat
It’s becoming known as Covid brain fog: troubling cognitive symptoms that can include memory loss, confusion, difficulty focusing, dizziness and ...
Video: Viewpoint: The US wrote the global playbook on the coronavirus and then ignored it
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent ...
How COVID causes delirium
[A]bout half of [COVID] patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and delirium, suggesting the virus may also attack the ...
Why intermittent fasting often doesn’t work
Many followers of the [intermittent fasting] diet, which has been popularized in best-selling diet books and touted by celebrities, routinely ...
