Category: Technology & Science

When good bacteria turn bad.

The Zika outbreak comes at a time of ongoing advances in data sharing policy, including a new call by the Wellcome Trust for journals and research funders to support open sharing of Zika research. PLOS Medicine Chief Editor Larry Peiperl and PLOS NTDs co-Editor-in-Chief Peter Hotez call on researchers to make full use of these opportunities.

Males are more likely to require intensive care and more likely to die from COVID-19. Dr Ricki Lewis considers why.

The antitrust lawsuit against Google has the potential to be the most important competition case in twenty years. Mitch Stoltz reports.

COVID vaccine hesitancy is on the rise. Here’s how different types of vaccine actually attack the virus.

America’s intellectual property laws and its jingoism are in the way of vaccine development. Dean Baker writes.

COVID-19 was not a surprise to anyone familiar with the ways of viruses. But a lot of folks weren’t paying attention. Ricki Lewis tells the tale.

An archaeologist’s hip surgery prompts him to reimagine the experience of a Puebloan woman who survived a terrible fall centuries ago.

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism wants one database to rule them all, with virtually no oversight. Svea Windwehr and Jillian C. York write.

A little sousveillance training against government surveillance. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick writes.