Technology
How a Pudgy Porpoise May Save Other Animals From Extinction
The vaquita, an icon of the Gulf of California, is swiftly dying out. But its strange DNA could hold valuable lessons for other threatened...
Hospitals Quickly Reshape to Treat Covid-19 Patients
Health care facilities are hastily constructing new entrances and testing facilities, installing glass doors, and crafting face shields...
What Does Covid-19 Do to Your Brain?
Scientists are racing to figure out why some patients also develop neurological ailments like confusion, stroke, seizure, or loss...
Fast Nanoscale ‘Movies’ Shed Light on a Solar Cell Mystery
Physicists found the locations of major defects in perovskite cells—a critical breakthrough on the path to cheap, flexible solar technology.
What if Covid-19 Returns Every Year, Like the Common Cold?
A new Harvard study models how long we’d have to keep social distancing if the virus turns out to be seasonal, like its coronavirus...
The Apple-Google Contact Tracing Plan Won't Stop Covid...
Putting the privacy of these smartphone apps aside, few Americans have been tested—and there's a risk of false positives.
Stephen Wolfram Invites You to Solve Physics
The Wolfram Physics Project intends to crowdsource the pursuit of the discipline's holy grail: A fundamental theory of everything.
How Health Care Workers Avoid Bringing Covid-19 Home
What do frontline workers do when they finish their shifts? Some have to isolate from their families to keep them safe.
Coronavirus Testing Is Coming Closer to Your Doctor's Office
The FDA still hasn’t approved at-home tests. But faster, more distributed tech is on the way to clinics and ERs—and is just what the...
Are Running or Cycling Actually Risks for Spreading Covid-19?
An unpublished study went viral after a research team warned that respiratory droplets may travel more than 6 feet during exercise....
