Joel Achenbach

• Science

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, leadership is steering this storied institution through an unusually rocky period

• Science

The image can help theorists better understand the physics of black holes, while the technology used to create it can be applied to other types of research.

• Science

Where did the virus most likely come from, and who is investigating its source? Here’s what we know so far.

• Science

A sample taken in a Wuhan market in early 2020 holds genetic traces of both the coronavirus and a small canid known as a raccoon dog, scientists report

• Health

The decision to shut down much of the country early in the pandemic remains highly contested, sparking concern about how we'll respond to the next viral threat

• Health

Lawsuits and legislation fueled by covid backlash have stripped public health officials of powers, leaving the United States unprepared for the next pandemic.

• Science

One of the largest genetic studies of grapevines suggests that domestication happened twice, independently, in the Caucasus region and western Asia.

• Science

“In almost half of the cases, the databases could not clearly say what we had in our hands,” said researchers studying rocks from the Atacama Desert in Chile.

• Extreme Weather

Mount Washington in New Hampshire logged the U.S.'s coldest wind chill ever recorded: minus-108.