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This is your brain on drugs

My favorite popular science books of 2021 (not including the one I wrote)

How to live forever (or die trying)

The mouldy fruit that saved millions

Oh-so-Omicron. The everything-about-Omicron newsletter

Variant of Concern Omicron. Here we go again...

Women were excluded from drug trials. They suffer from more adverse drug reactions.

Is there a "murder gene"?

There are small rocks in your ears that keep you balanced

Cracking the enigma of bird migration

How a cosmonaut used a tea bag to save the $100 billion International Space Station

The truth about salt

Did you know that cigarettes are radioactive?

How an ibuprofen-like chemical was discovered in olive oil

The secret behind the poison in a fish considered a delicacy

How to make an insect the size of a bird.

Why do giraffes have long necks?

How weird looking fish are helping research on organ transplantation

Do you suffer from Exploding Head Syndrome?

What do fake-meat burgers taste like?

Glowing

The Curse of the Pharaoh

COVID-preventing superantibodies, people with superpowers, a drinkable cholera vaccine from rice, protecting paintings with graphene

How well do vaccines work against the Delta and Lambda variants?

The human genome can vote and will soon be able to legally drink

A third shot of a COVID-19 vaccine raises immunity. Will you need one?

COVID's Dirty Two Dozen

The tsunami of misery

When people deliberately caused a viral outbreak

The animal that makes its own food by photosynthesis

Science explains why dogs are our best friends.

Humans are part virus. I mean this literally.

Why it is fine if your body temperature is slightly lower than 'normal'

Animals that eat their own brains might give us a cure for COVID-19

Why are human brains shrinking?

Do blind people know when it is day?

When doctors deliberately infected people with deadly microbes without informing them