Lara Williams

“Nearly three dozen people in China have been sickened by a newly identified virus.” Nope, that isn’t a throwback to 2020. Scientists have identified a new virus named Langya henipavirus, or LayV. The good news is that we’re talking about just 35 cases since 2018, and it doesn’t look like human…

If you’re reading this newsletter from Europe, your circadian rhythm is perhaps a little skewed today. The clocks say one thing, but your body is an hour out. The arrival of daylight saving time — introduced as a nationwide policy for the first time in 1916, initially by Germany and Austria and…