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Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?

Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.

The winners of the remote work boom? Utah, Arizona, and Maine. Here’s what the US’ post-pandemic migration looks like.

Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?

AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.

Concluding that Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.

The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.

The study was small and didn’t include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.

SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in humans in 2019. Despite much noise generated by lab leak proponents, the evidence indicates a natural origin.

Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society’s overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.

It should work for future variants, too.

Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.

A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.

People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.

The antibodies elicited by the “S2 vaccine” not only neutralize COVID’s multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.

Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.

The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.

From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.

Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.

It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.

In the 18th century, David Hume argued that we are only motivated to do good when our passions direct us to do so. Was he right?

In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell explores a strange phenomenon of group dynamics.

The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.

Americans without friends have increased 400% in recent years. Here’s why.

Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.

How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.

Quibi was so focused on foresight they forgot the basics of hindsight.

The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.

It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.

Long-term research efforts have revealed alarming mental health trends.