Conservation
This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought
Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice, and they are getting results.
Stories by Retro Report
Public Health
COVID Deaths Left Orphans: To Their Loss, Add Lifelong Health Risks
Avion Simon and his siblings, C.J. and Momo, lost their mom to COVID-19. Science has some ideas about the health hurdles that they and other COVID orphans could face in the future.
Diet
The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Hold Back Health Science
For decades, assumptions about weight have clouded our view of health
Public Health
Vaping Industry Echoes Big Tobacco’s Misleading Call for Science
To understand the battle over e-cigarettes, one must look to history—and big tobacco
Public Health
Why History Urges Caution on Coronavirus Immunity Testing
Being immune was once a status symbol—and another way to segregate and divide humanity
Public Health
Are Smokers or Vapers More at Risk for COVID-19? Here’s What We know
Investigating the potential danger to those who use tobacco products or e-cigarettes calls for a look at the lungs
Medicine
Larry Brilliant Helped to Eradicate Smallpox—and He Has Advice for COVID-19
The doctor’s firsthand experience with epidemics gives him a unique view of our current health crisis
