US Science Can’t Dream Big Without Sustained Funding from Congress
Physicists have an idea for a machine that would build the technological advances of the 22nd century. But they need lawmakers to buy in.
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Measles Season Is Here. How Likely Are You to Recommend a Vaccine?
While vaccination politics are centuries old, vaccine decisions today are treated like a consumer gadget — subject to the whims of brand loyalty and user experience.
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Ocean Empire
Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.
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Social Polarization Has Cognitive Roots But Is Not a Lost Cause
Even when social polarization appears inexorable, cognitive neuroscience teaches us how people can individuate and transform.
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The Story Linking Migrants to U.S. Fentanyl Deaths Is Powerful. But It Misses the Real Solutions.
Public health investments and international cooperation to stop rogue actors would better address the overdose crisis.
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The Accidental Astrophysicist
She never imagined she would reach the stars.
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The Current Culture of Medicine Is Failing People With Long COVID
Instead of switchboards, long COVID clinics can be incubators to reimagine medicine itself.
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The Rupture in Global Health Is a Warning
The old model is not coming back. The world must build something new, rooted in equity, solidarity, and shared humanity.
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Sects, Money and Global Health
An open, honest discussion about how foreign aid can help countries develop systems of local health research and knowledge … and not inadvertently create an elite cabal.
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When USAID Stopped Helping Other Countries, Americans Lost Out, Too
Trust is far easier to break than it is to rebuild.