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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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

“Understanding more about monetary policy and the economic regime that you’re living under can help ease some of the fundamental uncertainties [that have been] prevalent since COVID, and help you make better decisions in your day-to-day life.”

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.

In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.