Chris Baraniuk
Strep throat, flu, RSV: What’s behind recent strange patterns of common childhood illnesses?
RSV, Strep A, the flu: a range of familiar bugs are worrying doctors and parents with strange new patterns. What's ...
Here’s how abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol work
Today mifepristone is often used in combination with another drug, misoprostol, and together the pair are more than 95 percent ...
Human brains are a lot smaller than they were 3,000 years ago – and studying ant brains may explain why
Your ancestors had bigger brains than you. Several thousand years ago, humans reached a milestone in their history – the ...
Sewage monitoring could give early warning of fresh coronavirus outbreaks
Scientists in Spain are expecting to begin regularly analyzing sewage for traces of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, The Scientist ...
Scavenger hunt for new antibiotics sends researchers to strange places
It’s said that for nearly 200 years, residents of a small rural area in Northern Ireland called Boho (pronounced “bo”), ...
