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Ben Hickey How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
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Jacques Le Roux / iStock / Getty African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Amazingly Fast
But at what cost?
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Custom Life Science Images / Alamy; Mark Mcgillivray Flatworms Are Metal
They can tear themselves in half and regrow complete bodies. They can retain memories despite decapitation. And if you chop them into little pieces, each piece will start acting like a perfectly intact worm.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Even Counts as Science Writing Anymore?
The pandemic made it clear that science touches everything, and everything touches science.
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Photo illustrations by Ben Shmulevitch We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic
This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast.
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Shannon Lin / The Atlantic Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter
The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.
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Getty; Dawid Markiewicz / Getty; The Atlantic Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic How the Pandemic Now Ends
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.
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Spencer Platt / Getty The Atlantic Daily: A Nuanced Guide to Delta
It’s easy to feel despondent or indifferent about the pandemic these days. Here’s a better way to think about Delta.
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Getty; The Atlantic America Is Getting Unvaccinated People All Wrong
They’re not all anti-vaxxers, and treating them as such is making things worse.
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Bill Greenblatt / UPI / Alamy Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri
For America as a whole, the pandemic might be fading. For some communities, this year will be worse than last.
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Auscape / Universal Images Group / Getty The Story of Songbirds Is a Story of Sugar
Long ago, songbirds executed an evolutionary power move, rejiggering a sensor for savory tastes to react to sweetness.
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MirageC / Getty; NAIAD; The Atlantic The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta
Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled.
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Shutterstock No One Imagined Giant Lizard Nests Would Be This Weird
People didn’t know where yellow-spotted goannas laid their eggs, until one team started digging.
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Mailson Pignata / Getty A Pivotal Mosquito Experiment Could Not Have Gone Better
An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Shutterstock Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
“Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.”
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The Atlantic The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting
We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains?
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JOSH EDELSON / AFP / Getty An Unorthodox Strategy to Stop Cars From Hitting Deer
Try wolves.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale
The pandemic’s mental wounds are still wide open.
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Steve Geer / Getty Cicadas Have an Existential Problem
The bacteria that live inside the insects can’t keep themselves together.
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