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America Needs Plasma From COVID-19 Survivors Now
People who have recovered from the disease have antibodies that might help those still suffering from it.
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Melanie Lambrick The Rich Meals That Keep Wild Animals on the Menu
Samoa’s population of “little dodos” is dwindling down to nothing, but the appetites of wealthy people keep putting these rare birds at risk.
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NASA How to Survive Pandemic Reentry
Astronauts have given us some useful tips for surviving isolation, but we’ll need more to weather a pandemic.
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A Disturbing Look Inside an Italian Hospital
“Seeing people one step away from dying kills a little part of you.”
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Edmon De Haro The Pandemic Has Grounded Humankind
Space missions around the world are on hold—a poignant reminder of how COVID-19 has upended civilization.
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Paul Campbell / Getty / The Atlantic America’s Hospitals Have Never Experienced Anything Like This
If they run out of space, where will all the sick people go?
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Jia Sung / High Country News An Endless Fight Between Snowmobilers and Wolverines
Conservationists want to protect an elusive animal’s habitat. Snowmobilers want to preserve a cherished pastime.
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Nick Fox / Shutterstock Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident
There are advantages to having biotech executives as neighbors.
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A Fleeting Moment in the Solar System
Earth has lost its mini-moon.
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emarys / Getty Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful
We’ve known about SARS-CoV-2 for only three months, but scientists can make some educated guesses about where it came from and why it’s behaving in such an extreme way.
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Richard Ross / Getty What It Really Means to Cancel Elective Surgeries
To make room for coronavirus patients, hospitals are delaying procedures that would make major differences in people’s lives.
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Sergiy Barchuk Is There Still a Good Case for Water Fluoridation?
It’s a 75-year-old technology. Maybe we should rethink it.
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Alex Merto The Perks of Being a Weirdo
How not fitting in can lead to creative thinking
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The Atlantic The U.K.’s Coronavirus ‘Herd Immunity’ Debacle
The country is not aiming for 60 percent of the populace to get COVID-19, but you’d be forgiven for thinking so based on how badly the actual plan has been explained.
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Zoë van Dijk / Quanta Magazine An Unexpected Ally in the War With Bacteria
Scientists have struggled to develop new antibiotics. Enter: the machines.
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Ace03 / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Social Distancing Could Change Our Relationship With FaceTime
As public-health experts urge Americans to stay away from one another, video tech seems poised to take on a new cultural significance.
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Lindsey Wasson/Reuters America Isn’t Testing for the Most Alarming Coronavirus Cases
In many states, testing rules are so strict that doctors may not notice a community outbreak until it’s too late.
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The Great Giraffe Illusion
Giraffes may be omnipresent in popular culture, but they’re disappearing in real life.
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Davis Huber The Last Giraffes on Earth
The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.
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NASA A Solar System of Fire and Ice
Earth was once the only world known to have volcanoes, but they’re all over the place, spouting lava and icy plumes.
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Sarah Gilman What It Means to See a Cougar
One brief encounter with a big cat motivated a search for others.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty The Small Stresses of Keeping Coronavirus-Free
Why is it so, so hard to stop touching your face?
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