The Scientist At the Heart of COVID Lab Leak Conspiracies

Ralph Baric stepped onto the auditorium stage at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and looked out at the sparse audience that had come to hear…

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There’s Now a Rapid, Accurate COVID-19 Air Detector_1

The COVID-19 pandemic will forever be associated with unprecedented lockdowns and inconveniences such as wearing masks in public. And that’s largely because health experts had no idea…

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The Singing Penis, The Masquerading Clitoris, and Other Sex Secrets of the Animal World

Living organisms have been colonizing the planet for nearly four billion years. They’ve taken on countless forms through assorted evolutionary and adaptive mechanisms to survive in environments…

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I Traveled the World to Witness the End of Winter

For a century and a half, melting snow and ice have been the most recognizable visual evidence of climate change. You can see it in the Arctic…

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