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The polio vaccine highlights the networks of women—some scientists, some not, some named, and some not—who made the laborious, costly, and difficult work of vaccine development possible.

This summer, before this week's announcement of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus, planetary scientist Sara Seager and co-authors published a speculative sketch of what life on Venus could look like. And it's beautiful.

Fire in the Anthropocene has become the physical equivalent of endless nuclear war. A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from our fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred.

It's exacerbating hot, dry conditions allowing wildfires to spread farther and faster. Demographic and forest management factors alone are insufficient to explain the magnitude of the observed increase in wildfire extent over the past half-century.

Trump and Fox News Double Down on COVID Cover-Up Defense. Babylon | Los Pinguos. Woke | Trailer • A Hulu Original. Bruce Springsteen | Letter To You. Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think.

In an unusual and blunt rebuttal of a former colleague, 99 Stanford medical experts reject the "falsehoods and misrepresentations of science" concerning Covid 19 by Dr. Scott Atlas, a Trump advisor, warning of "immense avoidable harm."

Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report by the conservation group WWF.

At one time this magazine tangled with the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and Joseph McCarthy

The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.