As writer Robert Roy Britt reports, emerging data is painting a more complicated picture of the role children play in the spread of the novel coronavirus. He writes:
Preliminary analyses in the early months of the pandemic suggested children…
Detecting whether a virus is manmade is an important aspect of science and security. In this fascinating story, Sarah Scoles details the complex process of determining whether an organism is engineered, and why scientists…
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Teachers in a large school district in Georgia returned to schools last week to start planning for reopening. Now, 260 district employees are barred from entering the schools due to either testing positive for…
Several months ago, writer Sarah Treleaven was working on a story about the spirituality-as-self-care movement. Then the pandemic hit, and everything from astrology to prayer took on new meaning for the people practicing them. It turns out…
At the end of 2019, there were already 270 drugs on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) shortage list. As pandemic closures affected manufacturing and the demand for specific drugs rose, the FDA reported nearly 50 new shortages, bringing the total number of…
