Month: March 2022

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Michael Regan, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the “10 ways Biden should fix the EPA”

In the United States, there have been 17 million reported cases of Covid-19 — about 5 percent of the population. Millions more have been infected “Yes, people who’ve had Covid-19 can still benefit from the vaccine”

Americans have spent much of the Covid-19 pandemic blaming one another for the coronavirus’s spread. Don’t go to that beach or park. Don’t go to “Why America can’t rely solely on individuals to stop Covid-19”

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, clearing the way for it to be the second “A second Covid-19 vaccine has received FDA emergency use authorization”

Jupiter and Saturn are due to converge in their orbits on Monday, appearing as a double planet in the night sky — the first such “For the first time in 800 years, you can watch a “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn”

Many of us dread being alone. We find isolation uncomfortable or downright scary. If you want to know just how eager we are to avoid “How to be alone”

Fourteen thousand years ago, a star called Vela died. Its core collapsed first and then, in a violent burst, propelled the shattered star’s body out “2020 was a time warp”

“I am seeing tons of hair loss,” Mona Gohara says. Patients come to Gohara, a dermatologist and professor at the Yale School of Medicine, for “The isolation of 2020 is doing weird things to our bodies”

Winter and the holidays can be hard even in typical years: short days, cold winds, and family stress, to name a few. But the ongoing “You can survive winter and not spread Covid-19. Here’s how.”

There are around 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild, and about 460 of them live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. In the “Mountain gorillas are distancing, too — from humans”