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A wildlife team covers a young buck's head with a cloth to help calm it before testing the deer for the coronavirus and taking other biological samples in Grand Portage, Minn. on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Scientists are concerned that the COVID-19 virus could evolve within animal populations – potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people, spread among us and reignite what for now seems like a waning crisis. (AP Photo/Laura Ungar)

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Into the wild: Animals the latest frontier in COVID fight
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Wed,03/30/22-12:05AM , 190 Reads
GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) — To administer this COVID test, Todd Kautz had to lie on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on its snout, Kautz carefully slipped a long cotton swab into the bear’s nostrils five times.
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Fans storm the court at the conclusion of a college basketball game in Champaign, Ill., on Sunday, March 6, 2022. After about two months of falling COVID-19 cases, pandemic restrictions have been lifted across the U.S., and many people are taking off their masks and returning to indoor spaces. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)

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Scientists worry virus variant may push up COVID cases in US
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Tue,03/22/22-1:01PM , 121 Reads
With coronavirus cases rising in parts of Europe and Asia, scientists worry that an extra-contagious version of the omicron variant may soon push cases up in the United States too.
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This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient, in a laboratory in Fort Detrick, Md. The coronavirus mutant widely known as stealth omicron is now causing more than a third of new omicron cases around the world. But scientists still don’t know how it could affect the future of the pandemic. (NIAID/NIH via AP, File)

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As 'stealth omicron' advances, scientists are learning more
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Thu,02/24/22-9:42AM , 189 Reads
The coronavirus mutant widely known as “stealth omicron" is now causing more than a third of new omicron cases around the world, but scientists still don't know how it could affect the future of the pandemic.
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Holly Nover sits with her son, Colton Nover, 10, on a backyard swing at their home Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in St. Johns, Fla. Holly, a speech pathologist active in the National Stuttering Association, said many people will surely be interested in trying stuttering medications – although not her. She is happy with her life as it is and has accepted her stuttering, she said. If her son were struggling and wanted to try medication as a teen, however, she’d be open to the idea. (AP Photo/Fran Ruchalski)

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Unraveling the biology of a mysterious condition: stuttering
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Sat,02/19/22-10:08AM , 146 Reads
Holly Nover grew up trying to hide her stutter.

“I was very self conscious,” said the 40-year-old St. Johns, Florida mom, whose 10-year-old son Colton also has a speech impediment. “So I developed habits to switch my words so it wouldn’t be noticed.”
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