Ed Cara

Science writer at Gizmodo and pug aficionado elsewhere
  • This Photo Project Reveals Life with Pets While Experiencing Homelessness

    This Photo Project Reveals Life with Pets While Experiencing Homelessness

    A newly published project called “Shifting the Focus” aims to highlight the voices of people living with a pet while experiencing homelessness. The effort not only features interviews with these individuals but includes photographs of pets taken by the participants themselves. Lead study author Gemina Garland-Lewis is a veteran photographer and EcoHealth researcher who has…


  • What Ever Happened to Mad Cow?

    What Ever Happened to Mad Cow?

    One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200 people during the height of the outbreak in the late 1990s. You don’t hear much about mad cow today, but the threat still looms. Here’s…


  • Universal Antivenom for Snake Bites Might Soon Be a Reality

    Universal Antivenom for Snake Bites Might Soon Be a Reality

    We might be soon on the verge of having a super snake antivenom. In new research, a team of scientists says they’ve created a lab-made antibody geared to counteract toxic bites from a wide variety of snakes. In early tests with mice, the uber-antivenom appeared to work as intended. Snake antivenom is typically derived from…