This post appeared in the July/August 2021 situation of Discover magazine as “When Viruses Recover.” Subscribe for extra stories like these. Sitting in an isolated room at Beth Israel Deaconess Clinical Center in Boston, Frank Nielsen steeled himself for the 1st injection. Health professionals have been about to take a needle crammed with herpes […]

This article appeared in the March/April 2021 problem of Discover as “The Land of Living Snowflakes.” Aid our science journalism by getting a subscriber. St. Matthew Island sits by itself in the frigid emptiness of the Bering Sea, like a good, gnarled stone thrown significantly from Alaska’s western coast. On these shores, the rhythmic […]