Coronavirus

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Inside the bank holding biodata of 500,000 Brits

Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.

Illustration of a bunch of people walking around in a crowd. Most of them are thinking about the virus, as indicated by little think bubbles with images of the virus within them. But one person’s think bubble has a shield and a special star on it.

Health & Disease

I tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies — what now?

As immunologists struggle to understand the immune response, psychologists want to know how infected people will think and behave after they recover

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Physical World

Quest to secure the world’s vanishing ice

Glaciologists dream of a cold-storage vault in Antarctica to preserve key samples of the paleoclimate

Illustration shows people standing in line to receive a dose of infectious microbes from a researcher wearing a white lab coat, gloves and a face mask.

Health & Disease

First, do harm

Studies that deliberately infect people with diseases are on the rise. They promise speedier vaccine development, but there’s a need to shore up informed consent.

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The Mind

Keys to coping with lockdown

Studies on astronauts and Antarctic crews reveal how extreme confinement affects small groups. Scientists are racing to figure out isolation’s impact on the rest of us.

A woman wearing a surgical mask and gloves shops for alcohol in a store.

Health & Disease

Solving the pandemic’s drinking problem

The Covid-19 lockdown has changed alcohol habits, but public health researchers face a blurred and incoherent picture of who’s been drinking, and how much

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The Mind

The psychopathic path to success

Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.

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Coronavirus

Inside the bank holding biodata of 500,000 Brits

I tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies — what now?

Quest to secure the world’s vanishing ice

First, do harm

Keys to coping with lockdown

Solving the pandemic’s drinking problem

The psychopathic path to success

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