When Switzerland cut the size of its military in half nearly two decades ago, something interesting happened: the number of men fatally shooting themselves every year measurably declined.
One of the most pressing questions about COVID-19 vaccines is how long they can provide protection.
What do TV show predictions have to do with far-right conspiracy theories? On TikTok, an app popular with children younger than 14, there’s a very short path from one to the other.
When Donald Trump belatedly acknowledged defeat two months after last year’s US presidential election, some news reports zeroed in on a fundamental question: whether his speech had actual...
Cuba has two late-stage vaccine trials, and four candidates in total. It aims to use them to immunize its own population while supplying other countries like Suriname, Ghana, and Venezuela.
“Discrimination is not as bad as the media makes it out to be.”
In the pitch-black depths beneath 900 metres of Antarctic ice shelf, scientists recently made a curious discovery: something's living down there.
It may have been overlooked amid a spate of upbeat news about COVID-19 vaccine progress, but a report appeared last week on a potential breakthrough in defeating another disease that’s pl...
Getting there takes seven months, and landing on a surface where the average temperature is about -60°C involves “seven minutes of terror.”
2019 was a banner year for life expectancy – the global average at birth hit 72.6 years, higher than any country in the world had managed to record in 1950. Then, 2020 happened.
Countries around the world are racing to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19.
Some years truly distinguish themselves.
A Black cast member of the American comedy mainstay “Saturday Night Live” recently quipped that he’s skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines, though “I’m on a white TV show so I might actually ...
COVID-19 vaccines should start becoming available in the Western world for the first time in a matter of days. So, who should be given early access?
Traditionally, the first peak on a roller coaster ride is the tallest. But for Europeans faced with COVID-19, the second ascent in terms of confirmed cases and deaths has been far steeper...
