Month: March 2022

The Senate just took a step toward actually lowering US greenhouse gas emissions

The Senate on Wednesday took an important step forward on limiting emissions — and meeting its commitments to curb global

Will Covid-19 vaccines protect you against variants? 9 questions about variants, answered.

The Covid-19 pandemic now appears to be the worst it has ever been, with daily new cases worldwide topping 800,000

Biden agreed to waive vaccine patents. But will that help get doses out faster?

The Biden administration has announced that it will work with the World Trade Organization (WTO) to negotiate a deal to

How the world missed more than half of all Covid-19 deaths

The world may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths by a staggering margin, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Institute

The falling Chinese space rocket is a policy failure

There’s a scene in The West Wing’s second season in which one of the protagonists is told a Chinese satellite

Why India needs oxygen more urgently than vaccines

While here in the US some are tentatively removing their masks and resuming small outdoor gatherings, others around the world

Covid-19 proved bad indoor air quality makes us sick. We can fix that.

If a waiter at a restaurant brought you a murky, stinky glass of water, that would be unacceptable. But yet,

Vaccine passports can liberate America

Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19

Our amazing sense of touch, explained by a Nobel laureate

Before 2010, scientists knew very little about how the sensation of touch begins its journey into a person’s consciousness. They

Why the WHO approval of the first malaria vaccine is a big deal

Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people, most of them children. There has been significant progress against the disease