The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.

Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

To speak of the human as such, as the modernists did, is like taking a piece of the wild, putting it into a petri dish, adding bleach and antibiotics until more than half of what’s in there is dead and then celebrating the barely-living remains as “the human.” Provocatively put, the human is a sterile abstraction, a harmony of illusions.

EEE kills almost half of its victims, and cases are on the rise.

The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.

Before you ever feel it.

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.

The story of H1N1 and one of the lives it claimed.