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Virus-Infected Bees Practice Social Distancing

If there’s one thing we know about viruses, it’s that they love to spread. The novel coronavirus is happy to use us humans as its host. Other viruses fancy honeybees. But like us, bees fight back. In the case of one particular virus, called Israeli acute paralysis virus, a study shows that honeybees actually use […]

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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic

In trying to make sense of this rapidly changing COVID-19 world, I reflected on the recent passing of one of the great physicists of our time, my former Princeton colleague and Nobel laureate, the late Phil Anderson. Anderson made seminal contributions to our understanding of fundamental interactions that make up matter, but to many scientists […]