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The next generation of birth control will be effective and reversible, with almost no side effects. Within the next couple of decades, a new...
New RSV shots could make winter much safer for infants, but experts think current guidelines may be too strict. When a new RSV vaccine for pregnant...
Decades into their recovery program, black-footed ferrets still don’t have a clear-cut path to leaving the endangered-species list. At about 3:30...
The diseases are nowhere near the same. Four years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most...
Playful teasing might have evolved to help our ape ancestors gather crucial intel on their family’s and friends’ thoughts. In the late aughts,...
One type of flu virus has gone missing for so long, it doesn’t make sense to vaccinate against it. In Arnold Monto’s ideal vision of this fall,...
Prion diseases are poorly understood, and this one is devastating. Scott Napper, a biochemist and vaccinologist at the University of Saskatchewan, can...
On a conservancy of Kenya, lions are struggling to hunt zebras. An invasive insect may be to blame. Out on the savannas of East Africa, lions have...
Striving for fitness is usually healing. But for most people with long COVID, it can be toxic. In the weeks after she caught COVID, in May 2022,...
New cases seem to be less common nowadays, but that change is not as comforting as it sounds. Compared with the worst days of the pandemic—when...
Calling pet owners the “parents” of their dogs or cats might be the best shorthand for these relationships. For the 10 years they were together,...
Before Europeans arrived on the West Coast, the bears were 90 percent vegan. On the subject of grizzly bears, the San Francisco Call—a short-lived...
You carry literal pieces of your mom—and maybe your grandma, and your siblings, and your aunts and uncles. Some 24 years ago, Diana Bianchi peered...
Lumber, shelter, delicious nuts—there was nothing the American chestnut couldn’t provide. Across the Northeast, forests are haunted by the ghosts...
Facing down simultaneous surges of flu, COVID, and RSV, most Americans still aren’t getting the vaccines that could temper the worst effects....
Decades-old dogma holds that tuberculosis is lying dormant in the bodies of 2 billion people. What if that’s just not true? Growing up in India,...
Living with one more very deadly respiratory virus means … exactly that. Last fall, when RSV and flu came roaring back from a prolonged and erratic...
Humans have bred generations of dogs to bring back the things we throw. Cats seem to do it on their own. The way my spouse likes to tell it, our cat...
Even if plastic pollution stopped tomorrow, turtles would be dealing with the repercussions for centuries—at least. As recently as the 1960s,...
A team of researchers dreams of anti-aging, disease-tempering drugs—all inspired by bats. In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a...
Even if few people get the shots, this winter might look like this last one. But that trend won’t hold forever. Relatively speaking, 2023 has...
Flu viruses and coronavirus started the last few pandemics. Could the next one be a paramyxovirus? Whether it begins next week, next year, or next...
A genetic mutation carried by about 500 million people makes drinking dramatic, but may protect against infectious diseases. At every party, no matter...
Purple martins may have been saved by human-built nest boxes. What happens when our hospitality runs out? Whether it’s because we destroy their...
American births have historically peaked in late summer. But our changing behaviors, technology, and environment are flattening that bump. As the...
Certain groups are absolutely at higher risk for COVID. But experts say it makes the most sense to encourage everyone to get a vaccine. Paul Offit...