Caught between circuses, theme parks, museums, and menageries, zoos are struggling to be leaders in the conservation world. Getting there may mean letting some…
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South Africa has the world’s worst HIV/TB syndemic; now it’s trying to overhaul its response to both diseases. Babu Sunkari shows the lungs of…
Comments closedNearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get…
Comments closedIf Obama skips the International AIDS Conference in D.C. next week, he’ll miss a historic opportunity. Also click here to view a timeline of the…
Comments closedInternet pioneer Larry Smarr’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more…
Comments closedA report in Science 2 years ago that linked a mouse retrovirus, XMRV, to chronic fatigue syndrome astonished scientists and patients alike. But the theory…
Comments closedPASCAL GAGNEUX, one of the few laboratory scientists who has studied wild chimpanzees, is a walking encyclopedia of chimpanzee/human differences. Ever since scientists began studying chimpanzees,…
Comments closedTetsuro Matsuzawa has spent 30 years studying our closest primate relative to better understand the human mind Since 1977, Tetsuro Matsuzawa has been studying a…
Comments closedJack Johnson’s no-pretensions approach to green living has turned the mellow rocker into one of the music world’s leading environmentalists. But the best part of…
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