Fatigue can shatter a person: Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience ~health Article 3479 words 65 votes
The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew) ~science biology.micro Article 4107 words, published Feb 3 2014 10 votes
Why US healthcare workers are quitting in droves: About one in five have left medicine since the pandemic started ~health healthcare medicine Article 3470 words 12 votes
An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever ~health Article 1634 words 7 votes
No one is prepared for hagfish slime ~science biology Article 1468 words, published Jan 23 2019 18 votes
University of Nebraska Medical Center, the best-prepared hospital in the US for a pandemic, is nearly overwhelmed ~health healthcare Article 2172 words, published Nov 20 2020 10 votes
"No one is listening to us": More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this. ~health healthcare Article 3028 words 27 votes
The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think ~science biology Article published Apr 17 2020 7 votes
The problem with stories about dangerous coronavirus mutations. There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months ~health Article 2076 words 8 votes
How the coronavirus travels through the air and whether masks are effective have become some of the most divisive debates in this pandemic ~health Article 3498 words 10 votes
Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth ~science biology.molecular Article 567 words 10 votes
Here’s what the oft-cited R0 number tells us about the new outbreak—and what it doesn’t. ~health Article 567 words 3 votes
How bison create the spring : Indigenous groups are leading efforts to reintroduce free-roaming buffalo throughout their lands ~enviro conservation Article 531 words 11 votes
Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them ~science Article 535 words, published Sep 12 2019 9 votes
An ingenious microscope could change how quickly disease is detected ~science medicine Article 479 words 6 votes
The story of CTVT—a contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog—gets weirder all the time ~science biology medicine Article 1658 words 12 votes
Five North Atlantic right whales, an estimated 1% of the remaining population, have died this month ~enviro Article 545 words 12 votes
Narlugas are real: A very strange hybrid whale was the offspring of a narwhal mother and a beluga father ~science biology.marine Article 591 words 11 votes
Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores - A new study shows that the nutrient profile of the bear’s all-bamboo diet is much closer to that of a typical meat eater ~science biology Article 509 words 4 votes
Zebra stripes prevent biting flies from making controlled landings ~science biology Article 475 words 13 votes
Some plants “hear” through flowers. A study found petals vibrated in response to recordings of a bee’s wingbeats, leading plants to sweeten their nectar. ~science Article 1565 words 10 votes
Spiders use Earth's electric field to fly hundreds of miles ~science physics Article 888 words 17 votes