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Scientists losing uphill battle to prevent measles spread

Daniel Engber | Atlantic | 
Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in ...
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Whether you use Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro or Zepbound, you’re going to hit a weight-loss plateau. Then what?

Sarah Zhang | Atlantic | 
Everyone hits a weight-loss plateau, but the race is on for next-generation drugs that can help patients lose even more ...
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Weight-loss drugs, malaria vaccines and more: CRISPR innovations headline the science breakthroughs of 2023

Derek Thompson | Atlantic | 
CRISPR is the year’s top breakthrough not only because of heroic work done in the past 12 months, but also ...
‘Crime of insincerity’: What happens when researchers publish scientific results they don’t believe in?

‘Crime of insincerity’: What happens when researchers publish scientific results they don’t believe in?

Benjamin Mazer | Atlantic | 
Scientific publication can be a constraining, flattening, and maddening process—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing ...
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Viewpoint: Young far-right activists embrace ‘scientific racism’

Adam Serwer | Atlantic | 
Viewpoint: The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against ...
Viewpoint: With climate change roiling temperatures, we should get used to sweating

Viewpoint: With climate change boosting temperatures, we should get used to sweating

Katherine Wu | Atlantic | 
Perspiration is vital to life. It cools our bodies and hydrates our skin; it manages our microbiome and emits chemical ...
Viewpoint: Nuclear codes — ‘The temptation to automate nuclear weapons with AI will be great. The danger is greater’

Viewpoint: Nuclear codes — ‘The temptation to automate nuclear weapons with AI will be great. The danger is greater’

Ross Andersen | Atlantic | 
The world’s major military powers have begun a race to wire AI into warfare. For the moment, that mostly means ...
Could ice cream be good for your health?

Could ice cream be good for your health?

David Johns | Atlantic | 
Back in 2018, a Harvard doctoral student named Andres Ardisson Korat was presenting his research on the relationship between dairy ...
Might weight-loss drugs like Ozempic encourage people to stop exercising?

Might weight-loss drugs like Ozempic encourage people to stop exercising?

Xochitl Gonzalez | Atlantic | 
In the age of Ozempic, what’s the point of working out? The idea that we exercise to get thin may ...
Living through a time of pestilence

Living through a time of pestilence

Elizabeth Bruenig | Atlantic | 
If the pandemic ought to have given us anything, it should have been a more universal empathy toward the condition ...
Lab leak or animal source? Strong evidence emerges that COVID started in raccoon dogs in China

Lab leak or animal source? Strong evidence that COVID traces to raccoon dogs in China

Katherine Wu | Atlantic | 
The strongest evidence yet that an animal started the pandemic: A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to ...
‘Sleep is a need, but it’s also a ritual’: Exploring the scientific mystery of snoozing

‘Sleep is a need, but it’s also a ritual’: Exploring the scientific mystery of snoozing

Isabel Fattal | Atlantic | 
Why do living things sleep? “Ask researchers this question, and listen as, like clockwork, a sense of awe and frustration ...
Perspectives on cultured meat: Differences driven by ethics, education, ethics and views on how to address climate change

Perspectives on cultured meat: Differences driven by ethics, education, ethics and views on how to address climate change

Conor Friedersdorf | Atlantic | 
Last week I asked, “What do you think about meat grown in a lab? Would you eat it? Will your ...
‘Are we dreaming big enough’? CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna challenges governments, universities and investors to seize the moment and radically expand gene editing revolution

‘Are we dreaming big enough’? CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna challenges governments, universities and investors to seize the moment and radically expand gene editing revolution

Jennifer Doudna | Atlantic | 
In a life-changing collaboration with the French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, we figured out how the chemistry of this process could ...
Long COVID complications spark quest to better understand long-term consequences of other viruses

Long COVID complications spark quest to better understand long-term consequences of other viruses

Hank Balfour, William Hoffman | Atlantic | 
Several months into the pandemic, a new aspect of COVID-19 started gaining attention from scientists, journalists, and health-care professionals. Instead ...
COVID ad infinitum: Why the coronavirus could be part of our lives for a very long time

COVID ad infinitum: Why the coronavirus could be part of our lives for a very long time

Katherine Wu | Atlantic | 
Experts knew from early on that, for almost everyone, infection with this coronavirus would be inevitable. As James Hamblin memorably ...
Could Paxlovid help treat long COVID?

Could Paxlovid help treat long COVID?

Katherine Wu | Atlantic | 
In the two years since she caught the coronavirus, 38-year-old Jessica McGovern has cycled through “well over 100 drugs, supplements, ...
Is a new COVID surge cycle beginning?

Is a new COVID surge cycle beginning?

Katherine Wu | Atlantic | 
At this very moment, the United States, as a whole, remains in its legit pandemic lull. Coronavirus case counts and ...
Social reckoning? Do we need cathartic nationwide acknowledgement of COVID's horrific death and injury toll?

Social reckoning? Do we need cathartic nationwide acknowledgement of COVID’s horrific death and injury toll?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
On May 24, 2020, as the United States passed 100,000 recorded deaths, The New York Times filled its front page ...
Why we might need not annual COVID boosters

Why we might need not annual COVID boosters

Katherine Wu | Atlantic | 
In many parts of the world, the variant’s record-breaking wave is receding. Having a bespoke vaccine in 100 days would ...
Many people equate COVID with flu. Here’s why it’s more like smoking

Many people equate COVID with flu. Here’s why it’s more like smoking

Benjamin Mazer | Atlantic | 
It’s suddenly become acceptable to say that COVID is—or will soon be—like the flu. Such analogies have long been the ...
More than 7 million immunocompromised people in the US remain vulnerable to COVID. How should their concerns be addressed?

More than 7 million immunocompromised people in the US remain vulnerable to COVID. How should their concerns be addressed?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
COVID-19 is still all around us, everywhere, and millions of people... are walking around with a compromised immune system. A ...
Vaccinating the elderly: An unappreciated strategy to reduce COVID deaths

Vaccinating the elderly: An unappreciated strategy to reduce COVID deaths

Sarah Zhang | Atlantic | 
No other basic fact of life matters as dramatically as age for COVID. Other common factors associated with risk—race, diabetes, ...
Challenging the endemic hypothesis: ‘We have no idea what will happen next’

Challenging the endemic hypothesis: ‘We have no idea what will happen next’

Jacob Stern, Katherine Wu | Atlantic | 
Endemicity, so the narrative goes, is how normal life resumes. (Some pundits and politicians would argue that we are, actually, already at ...
Viewpoint: Masking school children to protect against COVID? Why the negatives may outweigh the benefits

Viewpoint: Masking school children to protect against COVID? Why the negatives may outweigh the benefits

The CDC guidance on school masking is far-reaching, recommending “universal indoor masking by all students (age 2 and older), staff, ...
COVID risk social contract: Is it okay to walk into a bar if you might sicken someone who might need hospital care?

COVID risk social contract: Is it okay to walk into a bar if you might sicken someone who might need hospital care?

Jonathan Wolff | Atlantic | 
When is it morally acceptable for one person to subject another to risk? Is it okay to walk into a ...
'COVID Rashomon': Fractured response to Omicron surge has spurred some Americans to say they're 'vaxxed and done'

‘COVID Rashomon’: Fractured response to Omicron surge has spurred some Americans to say they’re ‘vaxxed and done’

Derek Thompson | Atlantic | 
The messiness of Omicron data—record-high cases! but much milder illness!—has deepened our COVID Rashomon, in which different communities are telling ...
COVID force shift: Surge in milder variant focus global adaptation strategy rethink

COVID force shift: Surge in milder variant focus global adaptation strategy rethink

Sarah Zhang | Atlantic | 
Now Omicron is sweeping across state after state—even highly vaccinated ones—and new cases are shooting up and up. The virus ...
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