Share this on WhatsApp The items below are highlights from the free newsletter, “Smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19.” To receive newsletter issues daily in your inbox, sign up here. Please consider a monthly contribution to support this newsletter. The New York Times is routinely updating a graphic resource for readers, “Is your state doing […]
Share this on WhatsApp Advertisement The title of this issue is a bit misleading. A fully explanatory and complete title would have gone something like: “Scientists Confirm Long-Standing Theory of Sun’s Power, but As with All Science, Many Questions Remain and New Ones Are Revealed.” Exhaustive, yes. Catchy? No. Though when it comes to attention-grabbing-if-slightly-truncated […]
Share this on WhatsApp [Busy street sounds.] This is the sound of a neighborhood in Kolkata, India, in December, 2016. It was recorded by resident Sukanta Majumdar. [Quiet area, birds singing.] And this is what that same neighborhood sounded like on April 1st of this year, after the COVID-19 lockdown. “It’s like a unique place […]
