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Till Findl / EyeEm / Getty Twice a Year, Reindeer Eyes Pull Off a Wonderful Magic Trick
The Arctic can stay perpetually dark for months. Reindeer cope by changing part of their eyes from gold to blue.
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Alisha Jucevic / The New York Times / … This Fall Will Be a Vaccination Reboot
For the first time, COVID vaccines are getting an update in the U.S. But Americans still need to be persuaded to take them.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Squirrels Could Make Monkeypox a Forever Problem
If the virus finds a new animal host, it could settle in for the long run—and cause more outbreaks in the future.
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Luiz F. Ribeiro A Frog So Small, It Could Not Frog
Most frogs can jump and land with the precision and grace of an Olympic gymnast. And then there’s the pumpkin toadlet.
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The Atlantic; Getty Monkeypox Vaccines Are Too Gnarly for the Masses
Monkeypox is very different from COVID—and will require a very different vaccination approach.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless
A string of negatives can still presage a clear-as-day positive.
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The Atlantic Vaccines for the Littlest Kids Have Already Flopped
COVID vaccines for infants and toddlers are stalling and stumbling even before they’ve left the gate.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Don’t Wait to Get Your Kid Vaccinated
Kids are at risk of severe COVID outcomes—and immunity from infection isn’t enough.
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Getty; The Atlantic An ER Doctor’s ‘Third Way’ Approach to the Gun Crisis
Why violence demands not just policy solutions, but public-health ones
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Getty; The Atlantic Vaccines Are Still Mostly Blocking Severe Disease
Our original-recipe shots are holding up against new variants. But we may need to improve them, and soon.
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Juan C. Díaz Ricaurte Frogs Keep Mating With the Wrong Things
Could humans be to blame?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The U.S. Is About to Make a Big Gamble on Our Next COVID Winter
Experts are expected to choose a vaccine recipe for the fall, when Omicron may or may not still be the globe’s dominant variant.
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Getty; Shuran Huang / The New York Times … The Promising Treatment for Long COVID We’re Not Even Trying
Early anecdotes about Paxlovid’s effects on long COVID are intriguing, but no one’s testing them in clinical trials yet.
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Getty ; The Atlantic ‘Better Than Omicron’ Is Still Pretty Bad
Compared with what the U.S. saw in January, the current rise in cases so far looks pretty chill. Is it, though?
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The Atlantic America Is Starting to See What COVID Immunity Really Looks Like
With time and effort, we can build enough protection to blunt surges—but herd immunity remains out of reach.
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Bettmann / Getty Humans Can’t Quit a Basic Myth About Dog Breeds
Breed doesn’t have that big an effect on a dog’s personality.
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Nina Westervelt / Bloomberg / Getty Have We Already Ruined Our Next COVID Summer?
A lot has changed since last year’s pre-Delta lull, but America can still reclaim some coronavirus-free chill—if it decides to commit.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty America Created Its Own Booster Problems
Months of confusing messaging, piled onto existing inequities, kneecapped America’s booster campaign before it had really started.
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Ina Fassbender / picture alliance / Getty Naked Mole Rats Have a Very Strange Status Symbol
The elite rule with an iron fist—and a giant spleen.
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The Atlantic America Is Staring Down Its First So What? Wave
The United States could be in for a double whammy: a surge it cares to neither measure nor respond to.
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