Poem: “Forest” – Scientific American

COVID Has Made Global Inequality Much Worse

Share this on WhatsApp The coronavirus exposed and exacerbated the fragility and inequity of the global economic system. Many countries, including the U.S., proved unable to manufacture simple products such as face masks, let alone more complicated ones such as ventilators. Multiple supply chains broke. The resulting ordeal will almost surely lead to the creation […]

Evidence for Convalescent Plasma Coronavirus Treatment Lags Behind Excitement

Share this on WhatsApp Update August 24: The US Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency-use authorization on August 23 to treat COVID-19 with convalescent plasma. US President Donald Trump has called on COVID-19 survivors to donate their blood plasma as a treatment for the disease, saying that “it’s had tremendous response so far”. Meanwhile, […]

An Elemental Problem with the Sun

Share this on WhatsApp As astronomers gaze into the depths of space, they do so with unease: They don’t know precisely what the universe is made of. It’s not just the true nature of dark matter that eludes them; so does the essence of the stars that speckle the sky and populate the many galaxies […]