Ed Yong
Ed is also the recipient of the George Polk Award for Science Reporting, as well as several other awards. He is the author of I Contain Multitudes, a New York Times best seller, and the forthcoming title An Immense World.
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Mary Beth Saffo, Ph.D / PNAS The Creature That Gave Up Parasitism for … Wait, What?
It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a kidney.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID
Even before the pandemic began, more people here were dying at younger ages than in comparably wealthy nations.
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Getty / The Atlantic How to Successfully Smash Your Face Against a Tree
A new study refutes the widespread idea that woodpeckers have shock-absorbing heads.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Is BA.5 the ‘Reinfection Wave’?
The latest surge is a test of our pandemic priorities.
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The Atlantic America Is Sliding Into the Long Pandemic Defeat
In the face of government inaction, the country’s best chance at keeping the crisis from spiraling relies on everyone to keep caring.
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Kristin Laidre / University of Washington Will These Be the Last Polar Bears on Earth?
A newly identified population in Greenland is less dependent on the vanishing sea ice. But even they can’t hold out forever.
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Shayan Asgharnia for The Atlantic How Animals Perceive the World
Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.
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A. Calegari / De Agostini / Getty Rats Learned to Hide and Seek. Scientists Learned Way More.
To study something as freewheeling, spontaneous, and variable as play, researchers had to get creative.
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The Atlantic So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?
A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing
As COVID numbers tick up, hospitals are supposed to be ready to jump in as needed. Only, they never really had a reprieve.
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Getty; The Atlantic We Created the ‘Pandemicene’
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.
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Aaron Turner for The Atlantic The Final Pandemic Betrayal
Millions of people are still mourning loved ones lost to COVID, their grief intensified, prolonged, and even denied by the politics of the pandemic.
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Joe Riis / The Atlantic What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?
After the vicuñas in Argentina’s San Guillermo National Park caught mange from domesticated llamas, the world around them changed.
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Gallery Stock; Getty America Is Zooming Through the Pandemic Panic-Neglect Cycle
All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn’t meant to spin this quickly.
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Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times … How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?
The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?
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John Stanmeyer / VII / Redux The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo
What does society owe immunocompromised people?
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Alfred-Wegener-Institut / PS101 AWI OFOS system/ Antje Boetius These Animals Are Feasting on the Ruins of an Extinct World
Scientists had no idea how an underwater Arctic volcano could sustain so much life. And then they noticed the black tubes.
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The Atlantic Hospitals Can’t Accept This as ‘Normal’
COVID has pushed one Chicago institution into crisis again and again. The Omicron surge is receding. Now what?
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People
Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make.
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Joseph Prezioso / AFP / Getty COVID-Hospitalization Numbers Are as Bad as They Look
Many supposedly “incidental” infections aren’t really incidental, and cannot be dismissed.
