What do Neanderthals have to do with medicine? More than enough, it turns out, to earn Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize in Medicine for sequencing the Neanderthal genome. It may sound more like a feat wor...
People are worried about the coronavirus again. So it is understandable that public health officials are feeling pressure to recommend Covid-19 booster shots soon, before we find out the hard way when...
The Delta variant is the new pandemic scare story. Its spread into the United States has not led to a surge in deaths or packed hospital wards, but the news of its existence rained on the Fourth of Ju...
A clutter of unhelpful pandemic rules is wearing people down. One-way systems in stores, outdoor mask mandates, ceaselessly cleaning groceries and packages — should these things be our top priorities ...
Each virus has its unique pattern of spread, and scientists are starting to get a handle on how the novel coronavirus behaves. This understanding is making it possible to rank the risks of different a...
What’s the medical breakthrough that could save the most lives over the next ten years? In the 2020s, medical research will likely inch forward when it comes to major killers such as heart disease and...
It’s that time of the year when a middle-aged person’s fancy turns to treadmills and diets. Scientific literature on excess weight and health is expanding along with global waistlines, and yet, it’s h...
What’s so scary about climate change? The term is not scary — at least not in a visceral, skin-crawling sense. Scientists have shown that the likely two degrees of global warming to come this century ...
To leave a longstanding mark in history, Donald Trump needs more than low unemployment numbers and a string of scandals. He needs a moonshot.
Other leaders have labelled their goals “moonshots”, but t...
Believers in the quest to make America great again should consider where there is evidence things are going down the tubes. There is hardly a more dismal example than the national decline in sperm pro...
