The genetic factor that contributed most to the deaths of 47 Black men in police custody was the color of their skin, not the contents of their red blood cells -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Pandemic highlights for the past two weeks -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
By a vote of 7-2, the court declined to overturn the landmark health care law for the third time -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Doling out cash rewards and lifting mask mandates could increase vaccine uptake, some research suggests -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Tuskegee Institute researchers showed Jonas Salk’s vaccine protected children by developing a key test -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The new rules would require employers to notify workers of possible exposure to the disease and to report deaths or hospitalizations to the government -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Fee-for-service models, as in the U.S., and single-payer models like the U.K.’s and Canada’s both have significant flaws—but Singapore may have found a workable compromise -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The international collaboration does not have enough COVID vaccine doses to meet its goals, so wealthy countries must step up to fill the gap -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Some “gain of function” studies explore how a dangerous pathogen might cross species barriers to start an outbreak. They are not without controversy. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
An examination of the arguments that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China and the science behind them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Viruses that “spill over” to people do not stick around in animals, so finding true sources takes years of careful work, an expert says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A pan-coronavirus vaccine could be “one vaccine to rule them all,” and so far it has shown strong results in mice, hamsters, monkeys, horses and even sharks. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Large gatherings and much more lenient restrictions have allowed the virus to spread at devastating levels -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com