Selected Writings

Psychedelics are challenging the scientific gold standard

The Atlantic

XBB.1.5 shows we’re thinking about covid variants all wrong. Here’s a better way.

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Covid herd immunity hasn’t panned out: Why we are seeing surges when most Americans have been vaccinated or infected

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How long covid studies could help scientists solve the long-unsolved mystery of post-viral illnesses

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‘I wouldn’t bet against the virus’: Why omicron won’t be the last variant

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U.S. Covid testing is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

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How one medical team is bringing COVID-19 vaccines to hard-to-reach Hispanic communities

Science News

A new legal battle post-Roe: Can states ban FDA-approved abortion pills?

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All identical twins may share a common set of chemical markers on their DNA

Science News

Coronavirus shutdowns don’t need to be all or nothing

SCIENCE News

These plants seem like they’re trying to hide from people

Science News

Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years

SCIENCE News

Small, quiet crickets turn leaves into megaphones to blare their mating call

SCIENCE NEWS

Microbiologists took 12 years to grow a microbe tied to complex life’s origins

SCIENCE News

How do mosquitoes taste deet? hint: it’s not with their mouthparts

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What a newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of life

Quanta Magazine

Scientists find brain cells that make pain hurt

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Ocean snail is first animal to be officially endangered by deep-sea mining

Nature News

what makes us sleepy? ut-southwestern study points to the answer

Dallas Morning News

Scientists Discover Nearly 200,000 Kinds of Ocean Viruses

Quanta Magazine

Bird eggs laid in cold climates are darker, which may keep eggs warm

Science News

Even if there's a ceasefire, thousands of deaths projected in Gaza

NPR

Inside the debate that’s shaping the future of psychedelic therapy: To trip or not to trip

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Better ventilation in schools could reduce covid risks and boost learning. Why aren’t we doing it?

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Mixing trees and crops can help both farmers and the climate

Science News

Beware the premature rush to normalcy

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How much space does nature need? 30 percent of the planet may not be enough

Science News

The world had a head start with monkeypox vaccines. It has largely squandered it.

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4 reasons you shouldn’t trash your neck gaiter based on the new mask study

SCIENCE News

When will the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing end?

Science News

The ‘Blob,’ a massive marine heat wave, led to an unprecedented seabird die-off

SCIENCE News

Reproduction smothered by extreme snow in the arctic

Science News

A single-celled protist reacts to threats in surprisingly complex ways

Science News

This parasitic plant eavesdrops on its host to know when to flower

Science News

Should Evolution Treat our microbes as part of us?

Quanta Magazine

Human Genomics has a diversity problem

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Bacteria in worms make a mosquito repellent that might beat deet

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Ancient Turing Pattern Builds feathers,hair, and now— shark skin

Quanta Magazine

Hotter months harm mental health and increase suicides, study finds

Dallas Morning News

how ut-dallas researchers are changing injured brains for the better

Dallas Morning News

What does long covid treatment look like for kids? Too few clinics are trying to figure it out.

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Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and Learning

NPR

Nurses are not OK: Why they’re quitting their jobs, and what it means for the future of healthcare

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Your OB-GYN might miss out on critical training in a post-Roe world

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This hummingbird survives cold nights by nearly freezing itself solid

Science News

How the end of Roe could hamstring medical research and the hunt for new treatments

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Global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination is more than a moral problem

Science News

The U.S. largely wasted time bought by COVID-19 lockdowns. Now what?

Science News

different, but still whole: a young scientist reflects on his journey back from a brain injury

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Deadly temperatures expected to arrive later this century are already here

Science News

How scientists wrestle with grief over climate change

Science News

A #BlackBirdersWeek cofounder aims to amplify black nature enthusiasts

Science News

Bringing sea otters back to the Pacific coast pays off, but not for everyone

Science News

Ocean acidification may not make fish act weird after all

Science News

New Hybrid Species Remix Old Genes Creatively

Quanta Magazine

‘No one is immune’: Alaska’s scientists despair over plan to shrink state universities

Nature News

Study finds racial gap between who causes air pollution and who breathes it

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Living Near Your Grandmother has evolutionary benefits

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why is the universe full of matter?

Dallas Morning News

‘Broadband’ networks of viruses may help bacteria evolve faster

Quanta Magazine

Study: coca-cola shaped china’s efforts to fight obesity

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