Jonathan Lambert
Jonathan Lambert is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk, where he covers the wonders of the natural world and how policy decisions can affect them.
Lambert has been covering science, health and policy for nearly a decade. He was a staff writer at Science News and Grid. He's also written for The Atlantic, National Geographic, Quanta Magazine and other outlets, exploring everything from why psychedelics are challenging how people evaluate drugs to how researchers reconstructed life's oldest common ancestor. Lambert got his start in science journalism answering vital questions from curious kids, including "Do animals fart?" for Brains On, a podcast from American Public Media. He interned for NPR's Science Desk in 2019 where he wrote about the evolutionary benefits of living close to grandma and racial gaps between who causes air pollution and who breathes it.
Lambert earned a Master's degree in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University, where he studied the unusual sex lives of Hawaiian crickets. [Copyright 2024 NPR]
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The President says pregnant women should stay away from Tylenol due to possible autism link. World health authorities strongly disagree, say the drug is safe in pregnancy. -
New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent. -
A polar bear in a zoo, a hotel balcony overlooking elephants, a tree mural shrouded by haze: They're images from the new book The Anthropocene Illusion, about the way humans are remaking Earth. -
A report from the World Health Organization says 1 in 4 people lack access to safe water to drink. Even more don't have water for sanitation. We asked someone who grew up that way to share childhood memories. -
New research finds when expectant families in rural Kenya are given $1,000 dollars, infant mortality is cut by half.
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To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. -
The idea of giving people cash, instead of traditional foreign aid like food or shelter, has gotten traction in recent years. Now, the Trump administration threatens to reverse that.
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More than 8,000 have been infected, prompting the government to institute COVID-like restrictions
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The mosquito-borne disease is sweeping through a province in southern China, which is taking strict measures to quash the outbreak. -
This man in Mozambique is one of many who've received a cash sum with no strings attached. The Trump administration has criticized and curtailed the practice. Advocates are pushing back with evidence.
