Invasion of the hippos: Colombia is running out of time to tackle Pablo Escobar’s wildest legacy
It was hard enough to find the hippo, a massive, ornery male with a reputation for harassing local ranchers. For three long months, the scientists...
White House could have traced and contained its COVID-19 outbreak; it didn’t
The administration did not effectively deploy contact tracing or more cutting-edge virus mapping in response to what Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease specialist,...
How genetic science helped expose a secret coronavirus outbreak in Iowa VIEW
Workers at an Agri Star meatpacking plant in Iowa were left clueless as the coronavirus spread through their ranks. Genetic data held the answers. Here's...
Trump’s plan for managing forests won’t save us in a more flammable world, experts say
Extreme climate change has arrived in America, and it burns. Fire experts say the nation needs new strategies to cope with the escalating threat. But...
Coronavirus mutation has taken over the world. Scientists are trying to understand why.
At least four laboratory experiments suggest that the new 'G' mutation makes the virus more infectious, although none of that work has been peer-reviewed.
Researchers hypothesize that a highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is spreading, but other experts remain skeptical
There is no scientific consensus that any of the innumerable mutations in the virus so far have changed the general contagiousness or lethality of COVID-19,...