The Checkup

Measles is surging in the US. Wastewater tracking could help.

This week marked a rather unpleasant anniversary: It’s a year since Texas reported a case of measles—the start of a

Earlier this week, MIT Technology Review published its annual list of Ten Breakthrough Technologies. As always, it features technologies that

The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday,

In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be bidding farewell to 2025. And what a year it has been! Artificial

This week I’ve been thinking about babies. Healthy ones. Perfect ones. As you may have read last week, my colleague

One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch seamlessly between an

Weight-loss drugs have been back in the news this week. First, we heard that Eli Lilly, the company behind the

It has started to get really wintry here in London over the last few days. The mornings are frosty, the

Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. Testing potential skin irritants

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