JWST's Smashing Success Shifts Focus to Astronomy's Blind Spots

‘Spider-Man’ Immune Response May Promote Severe COVID-19

Share this on WhatsApp The menagerie of immune cells and proteins that defend the human body have received mounting scrutiny in struggles to ward off COVID-19. A lot of the debate has centered around whether, after recovery, a person carrying antibodies can safely return to the workplace. But attention has also turned to runaway immune […]

Why Some People Get Terribly Sick from COVID-19

Share this on WhatsApp You might have a sniffle and be done. You might run a fever with a cough and unshakable fatigue for five days—or 10. Or you might end up in a hospital, gasping air into congested lungs, an immunological storm raging in your body. And you might not make it through COVID-19 […]

Here’s What Scientists Are Learning about Women’s Health from Other Female Animals

Share this on WhatsApp Projected on the massive screen behind me onstage, a herd of giraffes rushes across a sweep of savanna. With the video set to loop, the giraffes gallop endlessly, giving me time to slowly lean across the podium and ask my audience: “Did you spot the pregnant giraffes?” I am delivering a […]