In the early hours of June 13, a baby was born to a brain-dead woman in Atlanta. That woman, Adriana Smith, had suffered a catastrophic stroke in February, in the early weeks of her pregnancy. When the baby, Chance, was born via C-section, he weighed less than two pounds. Last week, doctors at Emory University Hospital, where Smith was initially declared brain-dead, turned off the machines that had been sustaining her organs—and finally returned her body to the care of her family.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
February 05, 2026
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The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back. Beside me were two-ton custom jigs and dozens of shipping mounts resembling modern art. Within eyeshot were one-to-one-scale mass surrogates representing complex telescope parts and a swimming-pool-size bulletproof crate that had held the observatory’s large reflecting mirror—a 37,000-pound glass object as fragile as a teacup—on its journey across continents and waves to this mountaintop, Cerro Pachón.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
February 05, 2026
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The past three weeks have been auspicious for the anti-vaxxers. On June 9, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. purged the nation’s most important panel of vaccine experts: All 17 voting members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which sets recommendations for the use of vaccines and determines which ones must be covered through insurance and provided free of charge to children on Medicaid, were abruptly fired. The small, ragtag crew of replacements that Kennedy appointed two days later met this week for the first time, amid lots of empty chairs in a conference room in Atlanta. They had come to talk about the safety of vaccines: to raise concerns about the data, to float hypotheses of harm, to issue findings.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
February 05, 2026
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Christopher Migliaccio, an associate professor of immunology at the University of Montana, saw an opportunity to do what few have ever done: study what happens after people get exposed to wildfire smoke. He and his team quickly cobbled together funding and drove out to Seeley Lake to get data.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
February 05, 2026
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Think of a famous storm—maybe Hurricane Katrina, gathering force over the warming Atlantic surface and pinwheeling toward the mouth of the Mississippi River to flood the great city of New Orleans. You may remember that Katrina killed more than 1,300 people. You may remember other, less deadly storms, such as Sandy, which killed dozens of people in New York City, and at least 147 overall. Now think of a famous heat wave. It’s more difficult to do. And yet, heat waves can be fatal too. In 2023, scorching weather lingered for more than a month in Phoenix, Arizona, pushing temperatures to 119 degrees and killing an estimated 400 people in the county. Two years later, it’s all but forgotten. A major storm is history. A major heat wave is the weather.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
February 05, 2026
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To reach Mars, future astronauts will need to maintain uncommon levels of cheer in situations both terrifying and boring. They will be dealing with unknowns the likes of which humanity hasn’t seen since the inception of spaceflight. They will also be trapped with their co-workers in small capsules for years. The commute to Mars alone will take more than 200 days.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
February 05, 2026
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