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America's Poor Were Sick Before the Pandemic. Covid Made...
An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that into a global...
Treatment and Vaccine Trials are Halted, US Cases Rise,...
Catch up on the most important updates from this week.
The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic
An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that into a global...
In the US, 50 States Could Mean 50 Vaccine Rollout Strategies
The CDC put out a central playbook for how to distribute the shots. But how states will address these guidelines is anything but uniform.
How to Build a Spacecraft to Save the World
WIRED paid a visit to NASA's first probe designed to protect Earth from killer asteroids. It launches next year.
What Forest Floor Playgrounds Teach Us about Kids and Germs
Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good...
Wild Predators Are Relying More on Our Food—and Pets
A new study shows that some big carnivores are getting up to half their diet from sources like trash, crops, or small mammals that...
See Earth Transform Like You're a Time-Traveling Astronaut
The new photo book Overview Timelapse shows the startling ways humanity is changing the planet, from lithium mines to the ravages...
This Is My Brain on Salvia
I loaned my head to the world’s first fMRI study on the effects of salvinorin A, a potent psychedelic. Here’s what it revealed.
‘Meteorite’ Is a Love Letter to Space Rocks
For centuries, scientists thought meteorites were too fantastical to exist. A new book reveals that they hold even more mysteries.
