The mental health impacts of extreme heat, from increased suicides to more aggression, will likely worsen with climate changeThe record-setting heat that blasted much of Europe this week had immediate and obvious effects on public health. More than 2,000 people died from heat-related causes, like heat stroke or dehydration, in and alone, and the London Ambulance Service was during the hottest periods.But as scientists have begun to discover, heat waves harm mental health, too. From increases in suicides to spikes in aggressive behavior, research is just starting to reveal how and why...…The mental health impacts of extreme heat, from increased suicides to more aggression, will likely worsen with climate changeThe record-setting heat that blasted much of Europe this week had immediate and obvious effects on public health. More than 2,000 people died from heat-related causes, like heat stroke or dehydration, in and alone, and the London Ambulance Service was during the hottest periods.But as scientists have begun to discover, heat waves harm mental health, too. From increases in suicides to spikes in aggressive behavior, research is just starting to reveal how and why...WW…

Photo illustration: Mae Decena. Sources: Anadolu Agency/Ringo Chiu/Patrick T. Fallon/Eric Thayer/Spencer Platt/Kevin Dietsch360°Gun control after Uvalde: What could work, what won’t work, and what we can learn from the worldLENSESPPoliciesFFirearmsPPublic HealthGGlobalPolling indicates Americans favor gun reforms like “red flag” laws and assault weapons bans, but the reality is much more complicated.ContributorsWhat are 360s? Grid’s answer to stories that deserve a fuller view.LENSESOver the course of only 10 days this May, mass shootings claimed the lives of 10 people in Buffalo, New York,...…Photo illustration: Mae Decena. Sources: Anadolu Agency/Ringo Chiu/Patrick T. Fallon/Eric Thayer/Spencer Platt/Kevin Dietsch360°Gun control after Uvalde: What could work, what won’t work, and what we can learn from the worldLENSESPPoliciesFFirearmsPPublic HealthGGlobalPolling indicates Americans favor gun reforms like “red flag” laws and assault weapons bans, but the reality is much more complicated.ContributorsWhat are 360s? Grid’s answer to stories that deserve a fuller view.LENSESOver the course of only 10 days this May, mass shootings claimed the lives of 10 people in Buffalo, New York,...WW…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on July 21.Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images360°The Inflation Reduction Act: What’s inside lawmakers’ once-in-a-generation stab at solving climate changeLENSESEEconomyCClimateHHealthThe bill, expected to clear the House later this week, tackles drug pricing and addresses climate change.ContributorsWhat are 360s? Grid’s answer to stories that deserve a fuller view.LENSESThe Senate pulled an all-nighter over the weekend to pass a bill that represents the first time Congress has taken up one of...…Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on July 21.Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images360°The Inflation Reduction Act: What’s inside lawmakers’ once-in-a-generation stab at solving climate changeLENSESEEconomyCClimateHHealthThe bill, expected to clear the House later this week, tackles drug pricing and addresses climate change.ContributorsWhat are 360s? Grid’s answer to stories that deserve a fuller view.LENSESThe Senate pulled an all-nighter over the weekend to pass a bill that represents the first time Congress has taken up one of...WW…

Here’s how scientists are rethinking the endgame as omicron variants continue spreading.The idea that herd immunity would bring an end to the ever-lengthening covid pandemic was probably always a mirage.Hear more from Jonathan Lambert about this story:In the early days of covid’s global march, when vaccines were still said to be well over a year away and social distancing was the only way to slow transmission, the country needed a goal, a way to conceptualize the pandemic’s end. Herd immunity became that finish line, as experts including Anthony Fauci, now President Joe Biden’s chief...…Here’s how scientists are rethinking the endgame as omicron variants continue spreading.The idea that herd immunity would bring an end to the ever-lengthening covid pandemic was probably always a mirage.Hear more from Jonathan Lambert about this story:In the early days of covid’s global march, when vaccines were still said to be well over a year away and social distancing was the only way to slow transmission, the country needed a goal, a way to conceptualize the pandemic’s end. Herd immunity became that finish line, as experts including Anthony Fauci, now President Joe Biden’s chief...WW…

More than 40 percent say they want to leave the field within the next five years.America’s public health workforce has been the backbone of the nation’s pandemic response. But after two-and-a-half years of working in an increasingly polarized environment, many are fed up and want to leave, according to a study published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. within the next five years, three-quarters of whom started thinking that since the start of the pandemic, according to the analysis in the CDC’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Such an exodus from an...…More than 40 percent say they want to leave the field within the next five years.America’s public health workforce has been the backbone of the nation’s pandemic response. But after two-and-a-half years of working in an increasingly polarized environment, many are fed up and want to leave, according to a study published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. within the next five years, three-quarters of whom started thinking that since the start of the pandemic, according to the analysis in the CDC’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Such an exodus from an...WW…

Capacity is up, but the U.S. is struggling to connect people with tests.When an infectious disease outbreak starts, it’s like a brush fire. The flames are small and, in theory, can be contained if chains of transmission — blowing, burning debris — are snuffed out before they spark more small fires that eventually grow into a raging epidemic.The key to it all is testing, a lesson the United States painfully learned early on with covid and is once again confronting as monkeypox spreads across the country.Two months into this latest epidemic, the U.S. has enlisted commercial labs to increase...…Capacity is up, but the U.S. is struggling to connect people with tests.When an infectious disease outbreak starts, it’s like a brush fire. The flames are small and, in theory, can be contained if chains of transmission — blowing, burning debris — are snuffed out before they spark more small fires that eventually grow into a raging epidemic.The key to it all is testing, a lesson the United States painfully learned early on with covid and is once again confronting as monkeypox spreads across the country.Two months into this latest epidemic, the U.S. has enlisted commercial labs to increase...WW…

We care about your data, and we'd like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our .AgreeClues from fish diversity suggest that interbreeding between species could be a major mechanism of fast speciation.September 10, 2019To biologists eager to understand how one species can split into two, the apple maggot fly seemed primed to spill the genetic secrets.Sometime within the past 170 years, populations of Rhagoletis pomonella jumped from infecting the fruits of native hawthorn trees in North America to infecting apple trees introduced by...…We care about your data, and we'd like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our .AgreeClues from fish diversity suggest that interbreeding between species could be a major mechanism of fast speciation.September 10, 2019To biologists eager to understand how one species can split into two, the apple maggot fly seemed primed to spill the genetic secrets.Sometime within the past 170 years, populations of Rhagoletis pomonella jumped from infecting the fruits of native hawthorn trees in North America to infecting apple trees introduced by...WW…