Dark-eyed junco songbirds have been serenading the University of California, Los Angeles campus for decades as they forage for food. The species from the sparrow family is not usually found in cities.

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the U.S. in March 2020, life came to a standstill and millions of people experienced drastic changes in their lifestyles. For adolescents, this meant ...

Last week, the two top officials at the National Institutes of Health—the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research—debuted a new plan to help Americans weather the next pandemic: getting ...

Over the past two decades, scientists developed a pandemic preparedness playbook that has failed catastrophically. It grew out of the fears aroused by the global emergence of highly pathogenic avian ...

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The Black Death may have killed up to 200 million people, nearly 50 percent of the world’s population, making it one of the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. Compared to the COVID-19 ...

The world stands at a crossroads. In May 2025, the 78th World Health Assembly adopted the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement, an ambitious yet fragile step for global cooperation. It ...

The White House’s pandemic preparedness team has quietly withered to a single part-time employee. Congress established OPPR in 2022 with broad bipartisan support to coordinate and strengthen domestic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... To say that Pandemic Donuts single-handedly carried a significant portion of Denver through the COVID-19 pandemic would be an exaggeration. But not by much.

Babies born during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are heading to preschool and kindergarten, and experts are waiting anxiously to see its impact on the young learners. Concerns about cognitive ...