Year: 2023

The proposed settlement follows a three-day strike involving thousands of unionized workers in several states. View original article Contributor: Reed Abelson and Emily Baumgaertner

From the moment COVID-19 reached pandemic designation, Joe McDougall had nightmares. Not, like others, about the potential path of the virus, but about the seemingly inevitable moment at which he’d be asked—or held down and forced—to receive a vaccine. McDougall, now 39, is terrified of needles and a global pandemic meant that for the first … Read more

Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do. View original article Contributor: Carl Zimmer

An esteemed pediatrician, he overcame apartheid’s barriers to help make his country a global leader in H.I.V. care and research. View original article Contributor: Stephanie Nolen