What is this pandemic doing to our minds? Polls repeatedly show it’s having an adverse effect on our mental health. Physical distancing,… | Continue reading
On January 5, six days after China officially announced a spate of unusual pneumonia cases, a team of researchers at Shanghai’s… | Continue reading
In the summer of 1956, a small group of mathematicians and computer scientists gathered at Dartmouth College to embark on the grand… | Continue reading
The final outcome of COVID-19 is still unclear. It will ultimately be decided by our patience and the financial bottom line.Castleski… | Continue reading
There are many challenges to developing a vaccine that will be successful against COVID-19.eamesBot / ShutterstockWayne Koff is one… | Continue reading
Castleski / ShutterstockOn January 5, six days after China officially announced a spate of unusual pneumonia cases, a team of researchers… | Continue reading
There are many challenges to developing a vaccine that will be successful against COVID-19.eamesBot / ShutterstockWayne Koff… | Continue reading
The marquee on my closed neighborhood movie theater reads, “See you on the other side.” I like reading it every day as I pass… | Continue reading
In the summer of 1956, a small group of mathematicians and computer scientists gathered at Dartmouth College to embark on the grand… | Continue reading
Like most of us, Adam Tooze is stuck at home. The British-born economic historian and Columbia University professor of history had… | Continue reading
The most celebrated and maligned living acoustician, Leo Leroy Beranek, now 101 years old, has had a storied career. As director of… | Continue reading
When Pyotr Stolyarsky died in 1944, he was considered Russia’ s greatest violin teacher. He counted among his pupils a coterie of… | Continue reading
One icy night in March 2010, 100 marketing experts piled into the Sea Horse Restaurant in Helsinki, with the modest goal of making… | Continue reading
Social, cultural, economic, spiritual, psychological, emotional, intellectual: Everything is outside the box. And this new sheltered-in-place… | Continue reading
It seems like people who get infected with SARS-CoV-2 retain immunity, but we can’t be sure how long that immunity will last.… | Continue reading
My mother-in-law, Carol, lives alone. It was her 75th birthday the other day. Normally, I send flowers. Normally, she spends some… | Continue reading
This article from our 2013 issue, “Fame,” offers a look at the way information—whether it’s true or not—spreads across the… | Continue reading
Early in the morning on April 5, 2020, an article appeared on the website Medium with the title “Covid-19 had us all fooled, but… | Continue reading
My mother-in-law, Carol, lives alone. It was her 75th birthday the other day. Normally, I send flowers. Normally, she spends some… | Continue reading
I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions… | Continue reading
It’s a cold evening in New York City and I’m making Nepalese donuts. Or, I should say, Rachana Rimal, a cheerful woman with a… | Continue reading
Needing to clear my head, I went down to the Penobscot River. There they were, swimming with the mergansers, following an early pulse… | Continue reading
One of the great mysteries of modern cosmology is how our universe can be so thermally uniform—the vast cosmos is filled with the… | Continue reading
Needing to clear my head, I went down to the Penobscot River. There they were, swimming with the mergansers, following an early pulse… | Continue reading
Can we leap beyond flattening the curve and eliminate COVID-19 as a public health threat—not years from now but weeks? “It’s… | Continue reading
Life right now, for someone who studies respiratory virus infections, can be hectic and alarming. Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunology… | Continue reading
I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions… | Continue reading
Prayers to God can give people a false sense of reassurance that something has been done. In the worst case, prayers can take the… | Continue reading
The hint of a headache at your temples, an itch at the back of your throat, a fever so slight you barely feel it. You know that it’s… | Continue reading
I promise I have no intention to propose a quantum-model for disease spread, but like everyone else I have been wondering if I can… | Continue reading
Celebrated playwright Terrence McNally passed away on March 24. As told to The New York Times by his husband Tom Kirdahy, the cause… | Continue reading
I promise I have no intention to propose a quantum-model for disease spread, but like everyone else I have been wondering if I can… | Continue reading
This article from our 2013 issue, “In Transit,” offers a timely look at how an animal virus from one place can infect people across… | Continue reading
The hint of a headache at your temples, an itch at the back of your throat, a fever so slight you barely feel it. You know that it’s… | Continue reading
Celebrated playwright Terrence McNally passed away on March 24. As told to The New York Times by his husband Tom Kirdahy, the cause… | Continue reading
This article from our 2013 issue, “In Transit,” offers a timely look at how an animal virus from one place can infect people across… | Continue reading
We have no idea what will happen if, for example, New York runs out of ventilators or if people are sent away from hospitals… | Continue reading
We have no idea what will happen if, for example, New York runs out of ventilators or if people are sent away from hospitals… | Continue reading
I’ve spent years adventuring in exotic parts of the world seeking out wildlife—weeks in tents in remote wildernesses, nights uncomfortably… | Continue reading
The nonhuman world is free of charge; sunlight is a disinfectant, physical distance easily maintained, and no pandemic can suspend… | Continue reading
The nonhuman world is free of charge; sunlight is a disinfectant, physical distance easily maintained, and no pandemic can suspend… | Continue reading
Long before the first reports of a new flu-like illness in China’s Hubei province, a bat—or perhaps a whole colony of them—was… | Continue reading
I’ve spent years adventuring in exotic parts of the world seeking out wildlife—weeks in tents in remote wildernesses, nights uncomfortably… | Continue reading
It was the first day after the San Francisco Bay Area declared that residents shelter in place, and I was getting ready to see patients.… | Continue reading
Parts of the world might have shut down, but nature never does. Even while people stay at home and learn about physical distancing,… | Continue reading
Chances are, you’re hunkered down at home right now, as I am, worried about COVID-19 and coping by means of Instacart deliveries,… | Continue reading
Long before the first reports of a new flu-like illness in China’s Hubei province, a bat—or perhaps a whole colony of them—was… | Continue reading
If an earthquake now hits India or Iran, like in 2001 and 2003, respectively, killing over 20,000 people in each country—or if we… | Continue reading