Today we bring you the fourth episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
One of the country’s top epidemiologists explains how population-wide use of rapid antigen tests—in combination with other measures—helped get its outbreak under control...
Differences in life expectancy, car ownership and language may contribute to the racial and ethnic disparities
Today we bring you the second episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
On the anniversary of this global disaster, we take a look back at some of the biggest mistakes, surprising successes and lingering questions
Today we begin a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
An analysis of incomplete data shows they had a death rate higher than that of loggers and may have rivaled fishers for the most perilous profession
Scientists make and treat a 3-D-printed model of a ballooning blood vessel
Scientists are debating whether to delay, skip or halve doses. But untested tweaks could shake public confidence
The incoming U.S. president must help skeptics see benefits in masks and persuade Congress to spend more money on testing and protective gear
Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it
Stay safer on different forms of transportation
The FDA issued the emergency use authorization for the vaccine late on Friday. And immunizations of health care workers and long-term care facility residents could begin within days...
Stephen Hahn describes how the agency will evaluate vaccines for emergency authorization
Scientists have created an atlas of cardiac cells in six regions that could help chart what goes awry in heart disease
In a case on the Affordable Care Act next month, a conservative court could take away protections for preexisting conditions
Climate change, nuclear arms control, the pandemic and more will be determined by whoever wins the White House and Congress
From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most insidious false claims about the pandemic
From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most persistent false claims about the pandemic
An expert on airborne virus transmission explains the risks of talking loudly without wearing a mask in an indoor environment
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