Opinion | A Sports Event Shouldn’t Be a Superspreader. Cancel the Olympics. (Published 2021)
Mr. Boykoff is a political scientist who studies the Olympics. He is the author of “Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics.” The Tokyo Olympics are in big trouble. Postponed by a year and slated to begin in July, the Olympics have become a political flash point in Japan, where almost 60 percent of the population opposes staging the Games this summer and where less than 2 percent of the p
This New Covid Vaccine Could Bring Hope to the Unvaccinated World (Published 2021)
A volunteer in CureVac’s clinical trial received a shot in Brussels in March.Credit...Yves Herman/Reuters In early 2020, dozens of scientific teams scrambled to make a vaccine for Covid-19. Some chose tried-and-true techniques, such as making vaccines from killed viruses. But a handful of companies bet on a riskier method, one that had never produced a licensed vaccine: deploying a genetic molecul
The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme. (Published 2021)
The name Zoë Roth might not ring any bells. But chances are you’ve seen her photo. One Saturday morning in 2005, when Ms. Roth was 4 years old, her family went to look at a house on fire in their neighborhood in Mebane, N.C. Firefighters had intentionally set the blaze as a controlled fire, so it was a relaxed affair: Neighbors gathered and firefighters allowed children to take turns holding the h
Thomas Brock, Whose Discovery Paved the Way for PCR Tests, Dies at 94 (Published 2021)
In 1966, he found heat-resistant bacteria in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park. That led to the development of the chemical process behind the coronavirus test. Thomas Brock in 1992 at a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. It was there, 26 years earlier, that he found Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that would be used to develop the chemical process behind PCR testing for the
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing (Published 2021)
At first, I didn’t recognize the symptoms that we all had in common. Friends mentioned that they were having trouble concentrating. Colleagues reported that even with vaccines on the horizon, they weren’t excited about 2021. A family member was staying up late to watch “National Treasure” again even though she knows the movie by heart. And instead of bouncing out of bed at 6 a.m., I was lying ther
How the Largest Animals That Could Ever Fly Supported Giraffe-Like Necks (Published 2021)
If you were to gaze skyward in the late Cretaceous, you might catch a glimpse of surreal flying giants with wingspans that rival small planes. This supersized group of pterosaurs, known as azhdarchids, included species that measured 33 feet between wingtips, which made them the largest animals that ever took to the air. The extreme dimensions of azhdarchids raise tantalizing questions, such as how
Blood Clots Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine Stem From Rare Antibody Reaction (Published 2021)
A dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine being administered in Bucharest, Romania, in February. The vaccine has been a mainstay of inoculation programs in more than 100 countries.Credit...Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press New research has identified unusual antibodies that appear to have caused, in rare cases, serious and sometimes fatal blood clots in people who received the Covid vaccine made by AstraZenec
Let Us Now Praise Tiny Ants (Published 2021)
It is telling, the entomologist Eleanor Spicer Rice writes in her introduction to a new book of ant photography by Eduard Florin Niga, that humans looking downward on each other from great heights like to describe the miniaturized people we see below us as looking “like ants.” By this we mean faceless, tiny, swarming: an indecipherable mass stripped of individuality or interest. Intellectually, th
Opinion | Why QAnon Flopped in Japan (Published 2021)
TOKYO — For over 40 years, Japan’s leading purveyor of shadowy phenomena, Mu magazine, has peddled Bigfoot, U.F.O.s and the occult to a ravenous fan base. Alien civilizations and the biology of the Loch Ness Monster have been popular cover stories. A conspiracy theory doesn’t quite arrive in the country without a nod from the monthly publication. Yet Mu, with almost 60,000 readers and devotees inc
How the Novavax Vaccine Works (Published 2022)
The Maryland-based company Novavax has developed a protein-based coronavirus vaccine called NVX-CoV2373. In March the company announced an efficacy rate of 96 percent against the original coronavirus, 86 percent against the B.1.1.7 variant and 49 percent against the B.1.351 variant. Coronavirus Proteins The SARS-CoV-2 virus is studded with proteins that it uses to enter human cells. These so-calle
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Jeff VanderMeer Wants to Show You How the World Ends (Published 2021)
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Opinion | Made in the U.S.A.: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest. (Published 2021)