Joel Achenbach is a reporter covering science and politics at The Washington Post. With a focus on health and wellness, consumer health, and technology, he has contributed to a wide array of topics ranging from dinosaurs to extraterrestrial life. Achenbach's work has been featured in numerous publications, including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Boston Globe.
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NASA’s new IMAP mission, developed at Princeton, aims to reveal more about the bubble that protects our solar system
By: Joel Achenbach
I. Artemis, We Have a Problem As you may have heard, NASA plans to send a crew of astronauts around the moon in early 2026, followed by a lunar landing in 2027.
Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.
By: Joel Achenbach
America has decided the pandemic is over. The coronavirus has other ideas.
By: Lena H. Sun, Joel Achenbach
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday loosened many of its recommendations for battling the coronavirus, a strategic shift that puts more of the onus on individuals, rather
By: Bryan Pietsch, Joel Achenbach
WASHINGTON — The United States is finally “out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase” that has led to nearly 1 million deaths from COVID-19 and more than two years of
