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Originally published in February 1917 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “A report to the French Academy of Sciences tells of a unique experiment in combating a mosquito plague. Myriads of mosquitoes infest the rice plantations of Madagascar, and it occurred to Dr. Legendre to fight the marsh fever [malaria] caused by the bite of the mosquito […]

Back in 2010 Matt Thompson, then with National Public Radio, forecast in an op-ed that “at some point in the near future, automatic speech transcription will become fast, free, and decent.” He called that moment the “Speakularity,” in a sly reference to inventor Ray Kurzweil’s vision of the “singularity,” in which our minds will be […]

Observations | Opinion The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention Advertisement The need for chronic disease management and prevention does not disappear during a pandemic. As I am a gastroenterologist and colon cancer researcher, the irony of cancelling procedures meant to detect colorectal cancer at an early stage during Colon […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic makes grimly clear, cities are arguably humanity’s greatest invention, but densely populated metropolises also make us vulnerable to the rapid spread of disease. Yet humans aren’t the only species that face this problem. Honey bees have lived social lives for tens of millions of years, making them some of the oldest […]