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Every Decision Is A Risk. Every Risk Is A Decision.
4 min read · 119 saves · Jul 21st · Maggie Koerth · It has been a summer of compromises, a season of bending the rules. If I wear a mask and I keep my distance, I…
Controversial cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought
3 min read · 118 saves · Jul 22nd · Colin Barras · Archaeologists say stone artefacts point to occupation more than 30,000 years ago — but not everyone is convinced.
A Vaccine Reality Check
~11 min read · 98 saves · Jul 24th · Sarah Zhang · So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.
Mass Death Is Not Inevitable
8 min read · 96 saves · Jul 15th · Some say we’re doomed. But science and public spending have saved us from pandemics worse than this one.
Smallpox and other viruses plagued humans much earlier than suspected
7 min read · 87 saves · Jul 23rd · Laura Spinney · Genetic research is rewriting the history of diseases.
Stanford's John Ioannidis Tried To Warn Trump Against Coronavirus Lockdowns
~11 min read · 83 saves · Jul 24th · John Ioannidis’s controversial studies claim that the coronavirus isn’t that big a threat. Before the Stanford scientist did any of them, he wanted to…
Coronavirus Drug and Treatment Tracker
10 min read · 79 saves · Jul 16th · An updated list of potential treatments for Covid-19.
Beware of Facts Man
3 min read · Paywall possible · 77 saves · Jul 31st · Annie Lowrey · Facts Man is less about truth than raising questions. Why can’t Facts Man talk about certain issues in exactly the way he wants to?
Mitochondrial genome editing: another win for curiosity-driven research
2 min read · 58 saves · Jul 15th · A promising biomedical tool began life as part of efforts to answer a different question.
The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to end the pandemic
10 min read · 55 saves · Jul 17th · Giorgia Guglielmi · Researchers are scrambling to find other ways to diagnose the coronavirus and churn out millions of tests a week — a key step in…