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“You know, the other day we had a bright sunny day as we do today in New York, after many days of gloomy darkness and cold. And I went outside to get some milk. And saw the streets were full of people. And they were all young people who’d somehow gotten the message that this […]

While the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on respiratory problems and securing enough ventilators, doctors on the front lines are grappling with a new medical mystery. In addition to lung damage, many COVID-19 patients are also developing heart problems—and dying of cardiac arrest. As more data comes in from China and Italy, as […]

Originally published in June 1868 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “The use of raw meat in the treatment of debility and consumption [primarily tuberculosis] is in the ascendant in France: but that it may be served in a style the least objectionable to the patient’s delicate sensibilities, it is prepared under the name of musculine tablets, […]

In the weeks to come, we’re about to relearn that old truth: necessity is the mother of invention. Researchers will work around-the-clock because of the world’s need for a cure for COVID-19. But it’s worth keeping a corollary thought in all of our minds: necessity may be the mother of invention, but curiosity and imagination […]