Michael Greshko
7 people contract malaria every second. We are finally on the verge of engineering a vaccine to stymie one of the world’s most relentless killers
In a study published in The Lancet on [May 5th] an international team has shared promising new data on a ...
2.5 billion: That’s how many T. rexes may have roamed the Earth over their 3-million-year reign
On average, researchers estimate that some 20,000 T. rex lived at any one time and that about 127,000 generations of ...
COVID-19 Survival Guide: The virus will be with us forever. Here’s how we can adapt
Eventually—years or even decades in the future—COVID-19 could transition into a mild childhood illness, like the four endemic human coronaviruses ...
Which of our hominid ancestors forged stone weapons used to kill rhino in the Philippines 700,000 years ago?
Stone tools found in the Philippines predate the arrival of modern humans to the islands by roughly 600,000 years—but researchers aren’t ...
Life on Earth: How aliens might go about discovering us
[L]ight-years from our solar system, other intelligent beings on a similar planetary oasis might be gazing in our direction and ...