A lot is still unknown around Omicron, but a worrying trend has become clear: This variant sure is spreading fast. In South Africa , the U.K. , and Denmark —countries with the best variant surveillanc

No one knows exactly what endemic COVID will look like, but whatever it looks like, this— gestures at the current situation —ain’t it. COVID is not yet endemic. There is little doubt that the coronavi

It’s still wait-and-see time for many key characteristics of the Omicron variant. I think the fact that it’s going to cause more breakthroughs in vaccinated people, and re-infections in people with pr

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — In an industrial area of this seaside city, a little-known biotech company is entering a pivotal phase of making Africa’s first coronavirus vaccine by attempting to replicate

1 of 15 | Nazima Shaikh, mother of Arbaz Mullah weeps as she speaks to the Associated Press at her home in Belagavi, India, Oct. 6, 2021. Arbaz Mullah was a Muslim man in love with a Hindu woman. But

Travelers at the airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 27, 2021, after several countries imposed new travel restrictions in response to the omicron Covid-19 variant. Phill Magakoe/AFP via

As fall dips into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus has served up the holiday gift that no one, absolutely no one, asked for: a new variant of concern , dubbed Omicron by the World He

A man peeked into the construction site of a large Central African cultural center funded by the Chinese government in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Race to the Future How the U.S. Lost Grou

Zeynep Tufekci Omicron Is Coming. The U.S. Must Act Now. Nov. 28, 2021 Credit... Pete Kiehart for The New York Times By Opinion Columnist Leer en español There’s very little we know for sure about Omi

We have a new variant in town, Omicron. I was hoping to avoid learning the Greek alphabet, but here we are. I’ve written a piece about it at the New York Times , calling for early, precautionary actio

The City of Boston is poised to give final approval to a law that would divest city funds from the fossil fuel industry, a symbolic but forceful message supporting green energy investment as Massachus

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The fear of breakthrough COVID-19 infections spoiled the summer. In the early days of vaccine bliss, many Americans had thought that the shots were a ticket to normalcy—and at least for a while, that’

One of Apple’s best qualities is the time and energy it spends on pushing the envelope of technology. In recent years, it’s debuted impressive camera features, world-class tablets, amazing processors,

A line of takeout orders sat near the kitchen Monday afternoon at Langer’s Deli. Customers and food delivery drivers streamed in and out an hour before closing, grabbing bags in a rush. Some may not h

W e are now more than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, and we are once again hand-wringing about “hygiene theater,” the various public displays of sanitation and cleanliness that criti

The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on fossil fuel use. The soft pledges made at COP26 mi

Overeducated people are ruining political discourse by embracing “woke” language. If you pay attention to modern fights about language and social justice, you’ve probably heard some version of this co

India Eased Its Covid-19 Disaster. Fears of Complacency Remain. The success represents a major victory for Narendra Modi’s government, but a recent slowdown in new vaccinations has sparked worries. A

I n the fall of 2019 , Facebook launched a massive effort to combat the use of its platforms for human trafficking. Working around the clock, its employees searched Facebook and its subsidiary Instagr

The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal—but they also reject

Today’s Apple Mac keynote has been very eventful, with the company announcing a new line-up of MacBook Pro devices, powered by two different new SoCs in Apple’s Silicon line-up: the new M1 Pro and the

Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She

They Resisted Getting Vaccinated. Here’s Why They Changed Their Minds. Mandates have prompted a surge in vaccinations among those who had held out. Some report feeling relief; others, anguish and rese

Even if you are not a Mac user, you have likely heard Apple is switching from Intel CPUs to their own custom CPUs, which they refer to collectively as “Apple Silicon.” The last time Apple changed its

It’s easier than ever to invest ethically — or, at least, to be told by marketers you are. Whether you’re actually doing it is harder to figure out. Investors have become eager to put their money towa

It was around 2016 on the edge of the desert when the Touch Bar began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I’ll need several adapters for that…” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all a

The summer wave of Covid-19 cases and deaths is finally starting to fade, but already, winter is within sight. Last December and January, the United States and much of the world experienced the deadli

Moderna vs. Pfizer: Both Knockouts, but One Seems to Have the Edge A series of studies found that the Moderna vaccine seemed to be more protective as the months passed than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

William T. Sedgwick believed that no good could come of letting women vote. “It would mean a degeneration and a degradation of human fiber which would turn back the hands of time a thousand years,” Se

During the 2020 Democratic primary, Sen. Elizabeth Warren made fighting corruption her number one priority. It may not have seemed that way in the press, which tended to characterize the senior senato

F rom multiple directions , the crisis over the filibuster is peaking for Democrats. In just the past week, the casualty count of Democratic priorities doomed by the filibuster has mounted; both polic

A telescope is like a time machine. When astronomers peer out into the vast distances of space, they’re also looking back in time. That’s because faraway light takes a long time to reach us. When ligh

PHYS ED Is Aerobic Exercise the Key to Successful Aging? Aerobic activities like jogging and interval training can make our cells biologically younger; weight training did not have the same effect. Cr

Despite an appeal by Gov. Gavin Newsom for all Californians to voluntarily cut water use by 15%, Southern California has lagged in conservation efforts and even increased water consumption slightly in

In the final days before the 2010 midterm elections, Barack Obama was in Charlottesville, Virginia campaigning for an almost certainly doomed member of Congress. It would be one of the final stops of

SACRAMENTO — California’s pandemic-inspired move toward mailing a ballot to every registered, active voter will become a permanent part of the state’s political landscape, an embrace of an extended an

Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge, “ The Lightning Port Isn’t About Convenience; It’s About Control ”: Notably absent from Apple’s argument, though, is the fact thatcutting out a Lightning port

What is there to say about an operating system fifteen years after release? Fifteen years after the classic Mac OS was released, it was just two years away from its successor, Mac OS X, coming on the