How Viruses Have Shaped Us

“The problem wasn’t illness,” Joseph Osmundson writes of HIV’s death toll. “The problem never is. Illness is a fact of life. The problem is our inability to provide care to all.”  [more]

After Hurricane Ian, Robots To The Rescue

Search and rescue operations are setting out to assess the damage – with help from robots, both flying and swimming. [more]

The Paleo Past Hints At Our Climate Future

As carbon dioxide rises further past the unprecedented-in-human-history 400 parts per million, we are increasingly in a world never before measured by thermometers.  [more]

Is There A Place For ‘Good Union Jobs’ In Tech?

More than 6,000 warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are midway through voting on whether they should unionize. If the ‘yes’ votes win, it would be unprecedented for the company. [more]

Puerto Rico’s Iconic Radio Telescope Is Decommissioned

The astronomical observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, has been standing since 1963. It has weathered hurricanes, earthquakes, and time itself. [more]

What You Might Not Have Known About The Vagina

“It doesn’t help to only look at one or the other. Only by zooming out can we see them in their full range of variation and possibility,” writes science journalist Rachel E. Gross of the long history of neglected research into the vagina and its companion organs—the uterus, clitoris, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries. [more]