A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.

Lockdowns and distancing won’t save the world from warming. But amid this crisis, we have a chance to build a better future.

STAT spoke with CDC Director Robert Redfield about Covid-19, the agency’s muted role, and how he sees the pandemic unfolding.

Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, staring out our living room windows like aquarium fish. The question on everybody’s minds: How bad will this really ge…

If there is a way to stop COVID-19, it will be by blocking its proteins from hijacking, suppressing, and evading humans’ cellular machinery.

Four ways to help those around you be better informed about the pandemic

That’s not what they’re for.

The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.

In California, two of the nation’s first big antibody surveys estimated that the true number of coronavirus infections is significantly higher than believed. But scientists are skeptical.

It is nearly impossible to get the care they need to treat, or even diagnose, the coronavirus, say residents at the crisis’ center.

The word “airborne” means different things to different scientists, and that confusion needs to be addressed.

Coronavirus antibody studies and what they allegedly show have triggered fierce debates, further confusing public understanding. ProPublica’s health reporter Caroline Chen is here to offer some…

Widespread social-distancing measures have produced some jarring effects across land, air, and sea.

It’s the best option in such extreme circumstances.

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Ask any expert in infectious diseases and they’ll tell you that when it comes to pandemics, it’s not a question of if we’ll have another one. It’s a question of…

In the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Scott Stossel's My Age of Anxiety, Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan reclaims the concept of "weird" and turns it into a badge of honor rather than a slur,...

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us. In The...

The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose...

“A work of bright and careful genius.” —Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails “Fathoms took my breath away. Every page is...

Feasting Wild is a delicious food adventure, as Gina Rae searches for wild foods—and reveals what we lose in a world where wildness itself is misunderstood, commodified, and hotly pursued.

How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as...