How the anti-vaccine community is responding to COVID-19
It's the old, familiar path of conspiratorial thinking and government mistrust.
Science // Science & Exploration
How a 5G coronavirus conspiracy spread across Europe
Spate of arson attacks on cell towers fueled by disinformation over pandemic origins.
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“When we are divided, the virus exploits the cracks between us.”
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“They come to us with their hair on fire.”
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The 2019 Olympus Global Image of the Year honorees find beauty under the microscope.
Trump halts US funding to WHO, says none of this is his fault
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New model looks at what might happen if SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay
If it’s like related viruses, it could cause seasonal outbreaks for years.
We may need 300,000 contact tracers to defeat COVID-19. We have 2,200
Contact-tracing capacity is seen as critical to stopping transmission of disease.
General Motors’ first ventilators are ready for delivery
Company was ordered to make the medical devices by the Trump administration.
Hollow corkscrews may put a cork in noisy ventilation
Baffling baffle brings (almost) boundless blessed silence.
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
Folding@Home had settled into a low-profile niche. Then came COVID-19.
Study: ‘Oumuamua interstellar object might be remnant of a “super-Earth”
New simulations show parent body may have been ripped apart by strong tidal forces.
