‘The inscrutability of organic status’: Are you getting what you pay for when you buy food with an organic label?

‘The inscrutability of organic status’: Are you getting what you pay for when you buy food with an organic label?

Ian Parker | 
[Editor’s note: In this article, the New Yorker documents a large-scale fraudulent organic scheme in the U.S. They chart a ...
Delta won’t be the last: What challenges might future COVID variants bring?

Delta won’t be the last: What challenges might future COVID variants bring?

Dhruv Khullar | 
During this pandemic, we’ve developed and deployed vaccines in real time. Meanwhile, sars-CoV-2 is replicating not in a dozen flasks ...
Viewpoint: What should we do when Artificial Intelligence crosses ethical lines?

Viewpoint: What should we do when Artificial Intelligence crosses ethical lines?

Matthew Hutson | 
A few years ago, a number of A.I.-research organizations began to develop systems for addressing ethical impact, [including] the Association ...
Pregnant women were excluded from COVID vaccine trials. Now many are debating if they want to risk getting a shot

Pregnant women were excluded from COVID vaccine trials. Now many are debating if they want to risk getting a shot

Anna Louie Sussman | 
As the F.D.A.-approved vaccine candidates make their way from production lines to frontline workers in nursing homes, hospitals, and in ...
Russia aims to beat the West in so-far successful effort to rollout an effective COVID vaccine

Russia aims to beat the West in so-far successful effort to rollout an effective COVID vaccine

Joshua Yaffa | 
At the time of Sputnik V’s approval, Moderna and Pfizer were months away from announcing the results of their Phase ...
Gene editing: Playing God or repairing a ‘natural system’ that has gone haywire?

Gene editing: Playing God or repairing a ‘natural system’ that has gone haywire?

Elizabeth Kolbert | 
With CRISPR, biologists have already created—among many, many other living things—ants that can’t smell, beagles that put on superhero-like brawn, ...
‘Year of the Plague’: The New Yorker explores America’s continuing tragedy

‘Year of the Plague’: The New Yorker explores America’s continuing tragedy

Lawrence Wright | 
In October, 2019, the first Global Health Security Index appeared, a sober report of a world largely unprepared to deal ...
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Coronavirus evolutionary tree can illuminate pandemic’s ‘past, present and possible future’

Katherine Xue | 
For anyone who knows how to look, the past, present, and possible futures of the new coronavirus can be found ...
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Is there any point in living longer if we can’t stay young?

Adam Gopnik | 
Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. ... "...Over the past century, ...
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‘Synthetic media’: How AI could make the era of ‘fake news’ far worse

Joshua Rothman | 
In the emerging world of “synthetic media,” the work of digital-image creation—once the domain of highly skilled programmers and Hollywood ...
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