The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease
23 June 2021
New developments in a 10,000-year-old cold case have upended our ideas about how and when tuberculosis began infecting humans – and offered hope for a better vaccine
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Naomi Oreskes: Turn your anger at science denial into political action
27 November 2019
Rejection of science is rampant, but scientists can do better at countering doubt and there are grounds for optimism every day, says Naomi Oreskes, author of Why Trust Science?
You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world
10 October 2019
New Scientist readers are more knowledgeable than the general public and experts on the state of the world, but still score worse than monkeys would on some questions
Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu
1 January 2018
As the centenary of the great flu epidemic looms, we are right to be pessimistic – especially with H7N9 bird flu virus quietly circulating in China
Anti-vax views must not derail France's compulsory vaccine law
12 December 2017
The nation is about to make 11 childhood vaccines mandatory, but unless anti-vax echo chambers are tackled, the law may not fulfil its promise, says Laura Spinney
WHO launches bold plan to slash cholera deaths by 90 per cent
4 October 2017
The global health agency pledged to reduce the death toll – now running at 95,000 a year – by improving sanitation and strategically deploying an oral vaccine
