It has been hypothesized that organisms living at different latitudes or in different environments
adjust their metabolic activity to the prevailing conditions. However, do differences in …

… Laura Spinney … Laura Spinney … Laura Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The
Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. She writes about science, medicine …

One day in 1991, neurologist Warren Strittmatter asked his boss to look at some bewildering
data. Strittmatter was studying amyloid-[beta], the main component of the molecular clumps …

Mark Honigsbaum (June 23, p 2492) 1 describes my claim that the Spanish flu left humanity
transformed as “sweeping” 2—a subtly pejorative term that hints at a weak evidence base …

… Laura Spinney weighs up Frank Snowden's sweeping history charting the impact of
infectious diseases on society. Laura Spinney weighs up Frank Snowden's sweeping …

Strange things have been happening in the news lately. Already this year, members of US
President Donald Trump's administration have alluded to a'Bowling Green massacre'and …

Records of past pandemics are patchy. This one has seen a global frenzy of collecting.

Most think that phenomena such as political instability should be understood by constructing
detailed narratives of what actually happened—always looking for patterns and regularities, …

The European Brain Policy Forum was inaugurated by the European Brain Council in 2008,
as a forum in which all stakeholders in a given brain disease–patients, clinicians, basic …