Biology

There was a time when seeing was believing — but that’s changing, thanks to new technology that’s elevating fakery to a whole new l ...

The "passports" have been floated as a way to get people who've recovered from COVID-19 back to work. But one expert says creating an "immunodeprived" status is unethical.

Imagine for a moment a world without air conditioners, refrigerators, fans, or even ice. We take them for granted — but keeping cool is ...

The pandemic has warped and stretched time in strange ways, and this week, we listen back to our episode on time.

Around the globe, COVID-19 has frozen economies, closed schools, stores, and restaurants, and even canceled the Olympics. Millions of peo ...

As labs across the country were closed by coronavirus shutdowns, an SOS went out to save mouse strains vital to science.

Lack of data gathering could have a major impact on ecological studies and the young scientists who do them.

The test will enable people to collect their own saliva at home and send it to a lab for results, while the drug has helped some COVID-19 patients improve.

There are studies looking at changes to the virus genome — and the possible impact on how the virus affects humans. Here's what we know (and don't yet know) about mutations.

Most of us dread mosquito season — but on some level, you’ve got to admire these pesky bloodsuckers. Over the millennia, they’v ...

Vybe is offering the test to anyone who’s been symptom-free at least 10 days.

Naturally, she swats at them from time to time, but it’s her job to get to know the little biters better.

In the next installment of our series 'Why didn’t I go there?' co-host Shai ben-Yaacov and his son take a virtual tour the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philly.

You know you’ve made it when you get parodied on Saturday Night Live … by none other than Brad Pitt. And you really know you’ve ...

It feels like we’ve been invaded by an invisible enemy — so scary we don’t even want to go to the grocery store. Inside of hospital ...