
Learning to live with microbes in a COVID-19 world
By Christian Elliott Medill Reports In early 2020, confusing public health guidance about personal safety during a pandemic caused a nationwide flurry of “hygiene theater”

By Christian Elliott Medill Reports In early 2020, confusing public health guidance about personal safety during a pandemic caused a nationwide flurry of “hygiene theater”

By Daphne Yao Medill Reports The Jan. 6 Capitol rioters included QAnon members, who believe a cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals operating a child sex-trafficking ring

By Sarah Anderson Medill Reports You might have forgotten your lines as Tree No. 3 in the school play ages ago, but your nerves

By Carly Menker Medill Reports A 17-year-old girl diagnosed with anorexia nervosa dreaded holiday meals. So, two years ago, instead of joining Thanksgiving dinner, she

By Christian Elliott Medill Reports Human greenhouse gas emissions have heated the Earth 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1900 – a rate unprecedented

By Brittany Edelmann Medill Reports In 2012, Chris Butsch graduated from Vanderbilt University a semester early, with a degree in general engineering, and became a

By Sarah Anderson Medill Reports Primed by a drought that has lasted longer than the 1930s Dust Bowl, wildfires scorched over 5 million acres of

By Fiona Skeggs Medill Reports Christmas is a time for family. For gifts. For sweet treats. For plastic waste? People who celebrate a winter holiday

By Poonam Narotam Medill Reports Veteran climate scientist George Denton calls Pine Island Bay the “weak underbelly” of the western Antarctic ice sheet. Increased melting

By Christian Elliott and Brittany Edelmann Medill Reports Nearly 20 years ago, then Ph.D. student Gina Moseley walked into a bar in Bristol to meet