The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century.
Since 2000, the world has experienced 15 novel Ebola epidemics[1], the global spread of a 1918-like influenza strain[2] and major outbreaks of three new and unusually deadly coronavirus infections: SARS[3], MERS[4] and,...
Conspiracy theories are everywhere[1], and they can involve just about anything.
People believe false conspiracy theories[2] for a wide range of reasons[3] – including the fact that there are real conspiracies[4], like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin[5] at the cost of countless American...
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Today, the atmosphere of our neighbor planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven[1] and drier than the driest desert on Earth[2] – but it wasn’t always that way.
Billions of years ago, Venus had as much water as Earth does today[3]. If that water was ever liquid, Venus may have once been habitable[4].
Over time, that water has nearly...
Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of physical contact in cattle herds of different densities. Or they could record the sounds whales make as they migrate through the ocean.
Animal...