Month: March 2022
Climate change worsens extreme weather. A revolution in attribution science proved it.
There’s a cliché that has popped up for years in discussions of climate and weather disasters: You can’t blame any ...
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We have to accept some risk of Covid-19
There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, ...
DetailsWhy it’s so hard to be a nurse in America, according to two nurses
Last month, at the start of a fourth Covid-19 wave in the US, a nurse in a Seattle-area intensive-care unit ...
DetailsAstronomers were skeptical about dark matter — until Vera Rubin came along
Vera Rubin didn’t “discover” dark matter, but she put it on the map. Dark matter is a wild concept. It’s ...
DetailsWhat we actually know about the vaccines and the delta variant
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed, and with it, so has the effectiveness of the vaccines. The bottom line remains the ...
DetailsHow a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment
Since Covid-19 patients started showing up at clinics and hospitals a year and a half ago, doctors and researchers have ...
DetailsWhat full FDA approval for Covid-19 vaccines really means
Nearly nine months after the first Americans received their shots, the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech received full approval from the ...
DetailsThe lab leak hypothesis — true or not — should teach us a lesson
The origins of the novel coronavirus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic remain a mystery. US intelligence agencies have now completed ...
DetailsWhat do hurricane categories mean?
Hurricane Ida has begun pummeling the Gulf Coast, making landfall as a Category 4 storm on Sunday near Port Fourchon, ...
DetailsHurricane Ida could ravage the Covid-strained Gulf Coast
Hurricane season brings a recurring set of difficulties to coastal communities, and particularly to the South. Like other natural disasters, ...
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