A Holiday Season Surge, Outbreaks in Swing States, and More Coronavirus News
Coronavirus cases rise dramatically, drugmakers prepare for distribution, and the pandemic collides with the upcoming election. Here’s what you should
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Science
Why Are Lines at Polling Places So Long? Math
Mark Pelczarski was ready to retire. This was 2011; he was teaching computer science in Chicago by then, but that
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How Humanity Spent Its First 20 Years in Orbit Aboard the ISS
A few years before, Congress had designated the US portion of the ISS as the newest addition to the country’s
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In Embryos, Crispr Can Cut Out Whole Chromosomes—That’s Bad
In the Cell paper, researchers led by Egli injected Crispr into human sperm from a donor with a blindness-causing mutation
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How Octopuses Use Their Suction Cups to Taste Through Touch
Nicholas Bellono, a professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, was worried about his first octopus. “It’s not
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A New Way to Plug a Human Brain into a Computer: via Veins
Much more ambitious brain-computer interfaces and neural prosthetics have been in the news lately. Last month, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink
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What to Wear When You’re Battling Giant, Venomous Hornets
But exactly who makes the suit and what they might think about its use for Asian giant hornet wrangling is
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What Did Pterosaurs Eat? Look Very Closely at Their Teeth
The pterosaurs had no way of knowing it, but they would one day become a bit of a headache for
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What Should You Do About Holiday Gatherings and Covid-19?
The strangest, most confusing, most taxing year we Americans have collectively trundled through is about to get even more complicated:
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These Oceanographers Want to Turn Marine Slime Into Drugs
To find new drug-producing animals, algae, and microbes, the oceanographers aboard the Nautilus first have to learn more about the
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