In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring Covid-19 a global pandemic. For science writer Carl Zimmer, a ...

In this exclusive excerpt, Zimmer shares the story of how COVID-19 affected a small choir group and, more generally, how airborne viruses are transmitted and their implications for public health.

It's been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but it's still affecting health care, locally and nationally.

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens. By Carl Zimmer and Apoorva Mandavilli ...

According to Zimmer, research by the Wellses was largely forgotten until the Covid-19 pandemic brought their work on the spread of air-borne diseases back into the limelight.

Scientists have long debated the merits and risks of tinkering with viruses and bacteria, which the president claims caused the coronavirus pandemic. By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes President ...

Coronavirus is officially a pandemic. Here's why that matters. The World Health Organization has finally labeled COVID-19 as a pandemic, but does it change anything or is it just semantics?

How the Pandemic Has Affected Attendance at U.S. Religious Services During the pandemic, a stable share of U.S. adults have been participating in religious services in some way – either virtually or ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe Carl Zimmer Dutton (2025) In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, one of the most pressing questions for researchers was how the ...