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Trevor Mundel shares an update on Accelerator-related trials, drugs, and biologics that are being researched in the interim of a COVID-19 vaccine.

As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys.

Officials say sewage surveillance helped them detect a pair of coronavirus cases after students moved back onto campus.

The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system

Tiny sensors let beekeepers know if there’s a problem in the hive so they take action before it’s too late

A measure of social progress finds that the quality of life has dropped in America over the last decade, even as it has risen almost everywhere else.

A collection of the progress that occurred in the United States this year

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The results surprised skeptics.

Over the past decade, Utah's toughest cases of homeless people dropped to fewer than 200, from nearly 2,000. Utah's size and support from Mormon leaders are among the reasons for its success.

The leader of a group called the Initiative sees the rise of the far right in Europe, and the election of Donald Trump, as an opportunity of sorts.

The UN security council, the IMF, the World Bank and the ILO were conceived as agencies of change – they can be again

Start 2019 with some positive news about climate change.

The nation’s first federal health care program served freedmen after the Civil War. From the beginning, white legislators argued it would breed dependence.

A group of wealthy Americans from all walks of life across red, blue and purple states are united under the idea that our system is fundamentally broken

There’s a very simple way to give Medicare to all: delete six words from the legislation that created the program in 1965.

Investing in farming methods that improve lands and water, and in rural infrastructure and markets, could bring new prosperity to agricultural communities.

Americans can have serious and respectful conversations across our deep divides.

The first-past-the-post system used in most U.S. elections causes significant problems.

More places are adopting ranked-choice voting. Why?

Election changes such as ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan primaries are popping up across the country—and are already upending national politics.

This year, two groups of astronomers plan to send messages containing information about humans and the location of Earth toward parts of space they think may be home to intelligent life.

Food scientists, futurists, and sci-fi authors weigh in on what dinner might look like in the next 100 years.

Today’s culture combatants show no mercy, make no apologies—and have no decency.

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