Technology
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An unpublished study went viral after a research team warned that respiratory droplets may travel more than 6 feet during exercise....
The Big Cats of 'Tiger King' Will Live and Die in a Cage
Wantonly breeding a tiger in captivity and releasing it into the wild could be terrible for the native population.
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NASA Wants to Photograph the Surface of an Exoplanet
Our galaxy is potentially full of habitable planets. A team of scientists plans to take a picture of one by turning the sun into a...
