They collect our trash, cut out hair, plan our funerals. Here’s how they reacquainted with the world. Five years later, the ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

In 2023, the maximum alert level was lifted, but while the virus is now far less deadly ... changed the course of the pandemic. Highly effective vaccines were developed in record time, including ...

Neom was designed to be a marvel of modern civilisation—an ultra-high-tech, sustainable city emerging from the desert. With plans for a 106-mile-long mirrored skyscraper, an artificial ski resort, and ...

Five years ago, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, leading to worldwide lockdowns. The virus has claimed over seven million lives globally, with new strains still circulating.

“We published the story just as the first wave of the pandemic was crashing over New York City, and I was happy to inject a rare ray of hope into the relentless darkness of the news of the virus.

Tracking the virus has been key to understanding where outbreaks are occurring, and one tracking tool that had been mostly on the shelf before the pandemic is wastewater surveillance. That’s ...

Five years after the World Health Organization first described the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects are still being felt on the global economy. COVID-19 and efforts to ...

Ambitious plans for futuristic cities sputtered or are unfinished, including one proposed by Google's parent company, Alphabet, in Toronto; "Neom" in Saudi Arabia; a project near San Francisco, ...

SUSONO, Japan — The $10 billion Woven City near Mount Fuji is where Japanese ... Ambitious plans for futuristic cities sputtered or are unfinished, including one proposed by Google's parent ...