A new book by the co-author of “Three Cups of Tea” profiles a pair of doctors who pioneered a way to solve the most preventable form of blindness
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After SARS: A New Virus in Saudi Arabia Underscores the Need to Police Disease in Animals
A new and deadly coronavirus emerges in Saudi Arabia. When will we learn to predict emerging diseases in animals before they make the jump to humans.
Junk DNA — Not So Useless After All
Researchers report on a new revelation about the human genome: it’s full of active, functioning DNA, and it’s a lot more complex than we ever thought
How Gut Bugs Make You Sick — or Well
You are not alone – ever. All day, every day, you’re in the company of millions of other creatures, even when there’s not another soul in sight. More unsettling still, those unseen others live inside you.
The invisible population that calls you home is known as your microbiome — the millions of nonhuman cells that populate …
The Most Pesticide-Ridden Fruits and Veggies
The EWG releases its 8th annual “Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce”
A New Pollution Tracker: Glow-in-the-Dark Fish
This year’s TIME 100 is, as always, full of personalities whose influence is at once lasting and admirable, and who have done big, powerful things to shake the world. But many big, powerful things have their roots in small, …
Under the Weather: How La Niña May Influence the Outbreak of Flu Pandemics
There are two things you can be certain about when it comes to flu pandemics: they’re inevitable and you never know when one will strike. That unpredictability makes it difficult to prepare for a pandemic — some 40 years passed …
Virological Trade: Screening Imported Wildlife for Emerging Microbes
Border customs agents are on the look out for many things: illegal drugs, stolen goods, smuggled liquor and sometimes even people. Add one more target: animal-borne viruses. In a new study published on Tuesday in the journal PLoS …
Light for Haiti: A Feel-Good Tale in a Still-Dark Place
The sun will set early in Haiti tonight. By 5:23 PM, night will have come to the island nation, and while night comes to virtually every part of the world virtually everyday, throughout much of Haiti, the darkness will be much …