Snorting powdered smallpox scabs and jumping into the beds of those freshly dead from yellow fever. Humanity has gone to extreme lengths in search of immunity before. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
U.S. scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to tackling the significant racial disparities -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How it started, where it’s headed, and how scientists are fighting back -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Special report: How the coronavirus pandemic started, where it’s headed, and how scientists are fighting back -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Assigning a cause of death is never straightforward, but data on excess deaths suggest coronavirus death tolls are likely an underestimate -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A new mathematical model predicts areas on a virus that might be especially vulnerable to disabling treatments -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
High-speed sequencing technology, placed strategically in urban hospitals, could flag a new pathogen before it has a chance to spread widely -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Blood clots and inflammation may underlie many of these complications -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Pandemic news highlights for the week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The pests that have been laying waste to crops across Africa follow the winds, just like smoke -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
There is no evidence that dogs can pass the virus to people, however -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
President Trump pointed out yesterday that if we didn't do any testing for the virus we would have very few cases, which forces us to confront the issues posed by testing in general. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Being immune was once a status symbol—and another way to segregate and divide humanity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A 120-nanometer virus makes face coverings de rigueur in places where they were once shunned or against the law -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The disease's unequal impacts on different segments of the population is illuminating longstanding structural injustices -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Different species are helping answer different questions about COVID-19 in humans in order to develop vaccines and treatments -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com