Technology
Worrisome New Coronavirus Strains Are Emerging. Why Now?
Across the globe, SARS-CoV-2 is evolving ways to evade the immune system and become more infectious. Blown pandemic response plans...
Are Mass Clinics the Solution for Covid-19 Vaccination?
Mega-sites need a lot of personnel and pose problems of access and equity. But other vaccination campaigns might point us in the right...
Is It Time to Roll Out the Carbon-Eating Machines?
Facilities that suck carbon dioxide out of the air could be powerful weapons for fighting climate change. But their deployment requires...
Could Bobbie Hold 2 Spaceships Together in The Expanse?
This scenario is very similar to a classic physics problem—but with more Martian armor.
Sun-Loving Bacteria May Be Accelerating Glacial Melting
Scientists find that cyanobacteria cause sediments on glaciers to clump, thus absorbing more sunlight. It's not great news for fans...
The Secret Ingredient That Powers Supernovas
Three-dimensional computer simulations have solved the mystery of why doomed stars explode at all.
How Do You Define Electric Field, Voltage, and Current?
And what does that mean for making a little wire LED man light up?
A New Project Maps the Pacific Coast's Critical Kelp Forests
Using sea charts and satellites, the effort will trace how the kelp beds are changing in response to global warming and commercial...
Biden Gets to Work, Vaccine Guidelines Change, and More
Catch up on the most important updates from this week.
A Year Ago I Asked: How Bad Could Covid Get? Now We Know
No one was calling it a pandemic yet, at least publicly. Then came more troubling evidence about transmission, as the US ignored warning...
