The successes and failures of annual flu-shot campaigns hold lessons for the future of COVID vaccines.
The world’s best vocal mimics put human talents to shame.
It’s been a year since Omicron changed everything. Experts say a repeat is unlikely, but not impossible.
For most Americans, “how many” doesn’t matter anymore. “How recently” does.
It’s the most wonderful day of the year!
We can barely control a deadly disease affecting humans all around the world. What about the one that’s killing amphibians?
An early, massive wave of RSV, flu, and other viral infections is slamming kids and overcrowding emergency departments.
If you’re immunocompromised, this … isn’t great.
Why would anyone name their dog Kyle?
But double the spike proteins doesn’t mean double the fevers and chills.
“It’s like showing up in a weird hat.”
Fetuses want more than their mother can safely give.
No one quite knows why some allergies disappear and others don’t.
It may not be as bad as last year’s … but it certainly won’t be good.
Cats are a biological marvel. That’s not (the only reason) why I love them.
Behold choanoflagellates, tiny creatures that can be one body and many bodies all at once.
Experts can’t agree.
It got too cozy with its host.
The world has been so close to eradicating polio for so long—which is exactly why the virus is staging a comeback now.
Welcome to the two-vaccine conundrum.
They can fall from potentially infinite heights and survive. They can pivot off of nothing to land on their feet. Scientists still can’t fully explain why.