Chris Mooney
Video: Breaking the COVID genetic code: How genetic data revealed a secret coronavirus outbreak
The coronavirus mutates as it moves through its victims. Infectious particles swabbed from a patient’s nose carry small but distinctive differences ...
CDC guidance in turmoil over conflicting evidence whether COVID can be transmitted through the air over longer distances
[On Monday, September 21,] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention edited its Web page describing how the novel coronavirus spreads, ...
Former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue tapped as next agricultural secretary
Donald Trump has chosen former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be his secretary of agriculture, completing a protracted search with ...
Svalbard Global Seed Vault guards mankind’s food supply in case of crop apocalypse
On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ice and hundreds of ...
Anti-GMO fervor and vaccine rejection not the liberal equivalent of climate denial
For a long time, those wishing to claim that Democrats and Republicans both reject science—we're all biased, just in different ...
Cosmos continues to stir up creationists
The latest episode of Cosmos, devoted to explaining the nature of space, time, and the speed of light, presented a ...
Chromosomal fusion shows when you, me, and the Neanderthals evolutionarily split from great apes
Orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos have 24 chromosome pairs. But humans and our closest extinct ancestors have 23 as a ...
