Sarah Zhang
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
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Josep Gutierrez / Getty; The Atlantic Omicron’s Explosive Growth Is a Warning Sign
We don’t know how severe Omicron is, but we do know it’s spreading very fast.
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Getty; The Atlantic We’re Not at Endemicity Yet
Too many people still have no protection against the coronavirus.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Next Turn Hinges on Three Unknowns
A potential winter surge is up to vaccines, variants, and us.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Next Weird Way We’re Changing Cats
What if you could make your cat hypoallergenic with biotechnology?
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Andrew Merry / Getty America Has Lost the Plot on COVID
We’re avoiding the hardest questions about living with the coronavirus long term.
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Justin Hofman / Alamy After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out
‘Virgin birth’ might be more common in animals than we thought.
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Matt Chase The Children of Sperm Donors Want to Change the Rules of Conception
Does everyone have a right to know their biological parents?
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Drew Angerer / Getty ; The Atlantic Vaccine Data for Kids Under 5 Are Coming ‘Before the End of the Year’
Pfizer’s CEO set a timeline for when Americans can expect the earliest news about shots for young children.
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Shannon Lin / The Atlantic Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter
The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.
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Shira Inbar The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once
The benefits of ventilation reach far beyond the coronavirus. What if we stop taking colds and flus for granted, too?
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Jon Cherry / Getty This School Year Is Going to Be a Mess—Again
We have the tools to keep Delta in check, but schools have to actually use them.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live With It.
We can’t avoid the virus for the rest of our lives, but we can minimize its impact.
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David Jensen / Regent's Park Theatre / Getty Watch the U.K. to Understand Delta
The country lifted all its COVID-19 restrictions just as Delta peaked. What happens next will tell us how well vaccines are working.
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Barbara Klump / Max Planck Institute of Animal … The Trash Parrots of Australia Are Very Annoying but Very Clever
Parrots in the suburbs of Sydney are learning how to open trash cans from one another.
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Rogue Detection Teams Are Wind Turbines a Danger to Wildlife? Ask the Dogs.
Humans are terrible at finding bats and birds killed by wind turbines. Dogs are great at it.
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Universal Images Group / Getty Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers
The pandemic was a big social experiment that sent asthma attacks plummeting.
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America’s Vaccine Future Is Fragmenting
Vaccinated America is on track to real safety. Unvaccinated America still faces a real danger from Delta.
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Sebnem Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty A Slimy Calamity Is Creeping Across the Sea
The sea snot blanketing Turkey’s coastline isn’t just gross—it’s also smothering animals underwater.
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Xia Yang / Getty / The Atlantic Expect the Unexpected From the Delta Variant
There’s no way of knowing how bad things will get in the U.S. In a way, that’s a luxury.
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Olympia Valla / Getty; Nurk et al.; Katie … The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete
The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed.
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