The Delicate Path of Treating Addiction Among Doctors
Physician Health Programs aim to help doctors struggling with substance use and other problems while also keeping the public safe. But some medical professionals say the programs are overly punitive,...
View ArticleNeglecting Health Care May Have Cost Democrats the Election
Covid-19 has had had a disproportionate effect on Black, Hispanic, and Native American communities. One health policy researcher says the pandemic’s toll may have shaped the U.S. electorate in ways...
View ArticleInterview: What Biden’s Covid Czar Learned From the Pandemic
In a wide-ranging interview with Undark, Ashish Jha, the former White House Covid-19 response coordinator for the Biden Administration, discusses what the nation got right and wrong during the...
View ArticlePodcast: Is It Likely that Covid-19 Came From a Lab?
This week on Entanglements: Could the Covid-19 pandemic have been sparked by a lab leak? Our hosts explore this hot-button question in conversations with a Weill Cornell microbiologist and a Broad...
View ArticleIs the Future of Lab-Grown Meat in Luxury Products?
While production of cultivated meat is banned in several countries, one Australian company’s lab-grown alternative to foie gras offers a controversial future for the cultivated meat industry: as a...
View ArticleThe Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
How autonomous and semi-autonomous technology will operate in the future is up in the air. But experts say it has the potential to fundamentally change how war is waged: In the future, humans may not...
View ArticlePodcast: Is It Likely that Covid-19 Came From a Lab?
This week on Entanglements: Could the Covid-19 pandemic have been sparked by a lab leak? Our hosts explore this hot-button question in conversations with a Weill Cornell microbiologist and a Broad...
View ArticleThe Upside of Climate Pessimism
Hope is said to get people through tough times and motivate them to act. Without it, despair and apathy take over. When it comes to climate change, though, one environment-focused journalist discusses...
View ArticlePodcast: Is It Likely that Covid-19 Came From a Lab?
This week on Entanglements: Could the Covid-19 pandemic have been sparked by a lab leak? Our hosts explore this hot-button question in conversations with a Weill Cornell microbiologist and a Broad...
View ArticleBook Review: The Many Bounties of Collaboration in Nature
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “The Serviceberry” is a meditation on the abundance that sharing and mutual exchange can create in nature and human society. A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi...
View ArticleThe Downsides of a Massive Global Climate Conference
The yearly COP climate conference is growing in size, but not in its ability to act on climate goals, experts say. A 2021 report suggests splitting the conference into three parts and changing the...
View ArticlePodcast: Cannabis and Severe Mental Health Disorders
This week on Entanglements: Is cannabis safe for people with severe mental health disorders? Our hosts explore this question in conversations with a psychiatrist from Yale School of Medicine and a...
View ArticlePost-election, Controversial Health Movement Gains Newfound Steam
Public health leaders say the emerging Trump administration’s interest in elevating the sometimes unorthodox concepts of Make America Healthy Again could be catastrophic, eroding decades of scientific...
View ArticlePodcast: Is It Likely that Covid-19 Came From a Lab?
This week on Entanglements: Could the Covid-19 pandemic have been sparked by a lab leak? Our hosts explore this hot-button question in conversations with a Weill Cornell microbiologist and a Broad...
View ArticleBook Review: The Many Bounties of Collaboration in Nature
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “The Serviceberry” is a meditation on the abundance that sharing and mutual exchange can create in nature and human society. A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi...
View ArticleGeoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Some scientists, environmentalists, political officials, and business leaders are increasingly open to testing geoengineering technologies that could one day be used in an ambitious, or perhaps...
View ArticlePodcast: Is It Likely that Covid-19 Came From a Lab?
This week on Entanglements: Could the Covid-19 pandemic have been sparked by a lab leak? Our hosts explore this hot-button question in conversations with a Weill Cornell microbiologist and a Broad...
View ArticleBook Review: The Many Bounties of Collaboration in Nature
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “The Serviceberry” is a meditation on the abundance that sharing and mutual exchange can create in nature and human society. A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Be In the ‘Post-Genomic’ Age?
Next year will be the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the first draft human genome. In his column for Selective Pressure, C. Brandon Ogbunu reflects on what it means to be in a “post-genomic”...
View ArticleBook Review: Bringing the Universe Into Ever-Sharper Focus
Ever since it opened its infrared eyes in mid-2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has been dramatically expanding our understanding of the universe. In “Pillars of Creation,” Richard Panek lays out...
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