Many long-haulers feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.

Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

And what it lost in the process.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.”

The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

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

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

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

How animals see.

Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.

On the new science of collective behavior.

The story of Lilly Grossman’s genome.