Eastern Hemlocks Face Extinction. A Tiny Fly Could Save Them
An invasive insect called the woolly adelgid is eating the Northeast’s forests alive. So some researchers are calling in hungry silver flies.This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of...
The FDA OKs an Extra Vaccine Dose for Immunosuppressed People
The federal agency will allow people living with organ transplants, undergoing cancer treatments and taking some medications to get a third shot.Millions of Americans whose immune systems have been undermined by...
What Airbnb’s Summer Boost Reveals About Covid-19 Recovery
The company’s latest earnings report showed an upsurge in business, but it also hedges expectations for the fall.Few tech companies were rocked harder by the pandemic than Airbnb. In the spring...
Why won’t the US medical establishment “believe women”? Covid-19 vaccines do not warn about menstrual...
Amid rising reports of vaccine-related menstrual disruptions, the CDC and FDA are dismissing women’s concerns and denying them information while corporate media pathologizes them in sexist fashion.
This August 11, the US...
Cases Among Kids, New Mandates, and More Coronavirus News
Catch up on the most important updates from this week.Cases rise among kids, new mask and vaccine mandates go into effect, and the FDA authorizes booster shots for some. Here’s what...
Time Travelers Should Be a Lot More Worried About Viruses
Michael Moorcock’s classic 1969 novel Behold the Man is about a character named Karl Glogauer who travels back in time to witness the crucifixion. Historian Richard Carrier says that the novel...
Augmented Reality Is Coming for Your Ears, Too
New software applications are cleverly mapping audio to transport users to another space. Sharing your earbuds with somebody is, in every important aspect, gross. There must be a compelling reason to want...
In Somalia, the US is bombing the very ‘terrorists’ it created
US and British meddling transformed Somalia’s al-Shabaab into an extremist group, inflaming the humanitarian crisis that persists throughout the country.
This July, the Biden administration picked up where Trump left off and...