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‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’
A ‘Distinctly Human’ Trait That Might Actually Be Universal
A Fundamental Stage of Human Reproduction Is Shifting
A History of Humanity in Which Humans Are Secondary
A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless
A New Strategy for Staying One Step Ahead of the Virus
America Created Its Own Booster Problems
America Is Staring Down Its First So What? Wave
Antlers Do What No Other Bones Can
Calling Omicron ‘Mild’ Is Wishful Thinking
Cockroaches have outsmarted us again
Coronavirus Reinfection Will Soon Become Our Reality
Could Genetics Be the Key to Never Getting the Coronavirus?
COVID Shots Are Still One Giant Experiment
Deer Are Beta-Testing a Nightmare Disease
Endemicity Is Meaningless
Five COVID Numbers That Don’t Make Sense Anymore
Have We Already Ruined Our Next COVID Summer?
How Bacteria-Eating Bacteria Could Help Win the War Against Germs
How Worried Should We Be About the Omicron Subvariant XBB.1.5?
Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?
Is COVID Immunity Hung Up on Old Variants?
It’s Gotten Awkward to Wear a Mask
Long COVID Is Now the Biggest Pandemic Risk for Most People
New COVID Vaccines Will Be Ready This Fall. America Won’t Be.
No One Can Decide If Grapefruit Is Dangerous
No, Mouthwash Will Not Save You From the Coronavirus
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing
Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists
Of Course Biden Has COVID
Only the Global-Health Emergency Has Ended
Our Relationship With COVID Vaccines Is Just Getting Started
Polio Is Exploiting a Very Human Weakness
Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel. It Also Assembles Itself.
The BA.5 Wave Is What COVID Normal Looks Like
The Bigger This Fungus Gets, the Worse We’re Doing
The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel
The Coming Birth-Control Revolution
The Coronavirus Could Get Worse
The Coronavirus Has One Strategy We Can’t Vaccinate Against
The Coronavirus’s Next Move
The Future of Long COVID
The Future of Monkeypox
The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us
The Pandemic After the Pandemic
The Promising Treatment for Long COVID We’re Not Even Trying
The Rules of Asymptomatic COVID Have Changed
The Sriracha Shortage Is a Very Bad Sign
The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic
The Worst of the Omicron Wave Could Still Be Coming
The Year Without Germs Changed Kids
This Rat Covers Itself With Poison That Can Take Out an Elephant
Wash Your Hands and Pray You Don’t Get Sick
We Know Almost Nothing About the Omicron Variant
What Does ‘Negative’ on a Coronavirus Test Really Mean?
Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?