How Covid-19 Slowed Basic Research
Battered by the pandemic’s challenges and pushed to their limits, researchers responded with resilience, creativity, and long hours.
Systematic attacks on health facilities and targeting of health workers have become a go-to strategy of modern warfare. What will it take to end these crimes?
Preventing Airborne Spread of Covid-19
Why it took so long to acknowledge that Covid-19 is airborne—and what we need to do now.
Medication abortion or traveling to other states will be options for some. Others will endure unsafe procedures or other costs.
Injustice Decoded
Public health researchers are working to uncover and correct unfairness in AI.
New drug targets and tools for identifying promising drugs suggest treatments for Covid-19—and future diseases.
Their Own Definition of Justice
More than half of IPV incidents aren’t reported—largely because criminal justice doesn’t always provide what survivors need.
The Wrong List for Kids
Registering kids makes them targets for violence and increases their risk for mental health and other problems—without reducing reoffending.
Two were shot. Others lost family or friends. All know that change is possible.
Arrests and incarceration won’t stop urban gun violence. Instead, a growing number of researchers say community violence prevention is the most promising solution.