A global partnership announced plans to spend more than $5 billion to eradicate poliovirus.
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A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn’t.
Even with U.N.’s previous goals unmet, delegates tried to water down provisions regarding protections for vulnerable populations and patents for essential drugs.
We’ll Probably Need Booster Shots for Covid-19. But When? And Which Ones?
Scientists are asking a lot of questions about Covid-19 booster shots, but they don’t yet have many answers. Here’s what they know so far.
Why A.I. Should Be Afraid of Us
Because benevolent bots are suckers. Plus, racism in medical journals, the sperm-count “crisis” and more in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter.
Teens Are Rarely Hospitalized With Covid, but Cases Can Be Severe
Adolescents were hospitalized with Covid three times as often as with flu, researchers reported. Nearly one-third wound up in I.C.U.s.
The Sperm-Count ‘Crisis’ Doesn’t Add Up
Reports of a decline in male fertility rely on flawed assumptions, a new study contends.
Sharks Nearly Went Extinct 19 Million Years Ago From Mystery Event
Analysis of the fossil record shows a mysterious mass extinction that decimated the diversity of sharks in the world’s oceans, and they’ve never fully recovered.
How the ‘Wandering Meatloaf’ Got Its Rock-Hard Teeth
The dentition of the gumboot chiton, a lumbering mollusk, contains a rare mineral never before seen in a living animal.
A Vaccine Side Effect Leaves Women Wondering: Why Isn’t the Pill Safer?
Scientists were alarmed by blood clots possibly linked to the J&J vaccine. Some women wondered if there shouldn’t be more concern about oral contraceptives.
Reading Dan Frank, Book Editor and ‘Champion of the Unexampled’
Alan Lightman, Janna Levin and others recall the editor who shaped their work and a literary genre. Plus, more reading recommendations in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter.