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Month: March 2022
Coronavirus is in the air. Here’s how to get it out.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, can float in the air. In particular, it can linger in poorly ventilated indoor spaces, spreading farther than 6 “Coronavirus is in the air. Here’s how to get it out.”
What Biden can do to fix Trump’s Covid-19 mess
If Joe Biden beats Donald Trump this November and ends up in the Oval Office in January, he’ll quickly face one of the gravest challenges “What Biden can do to fix Trump’s Covid-19 mess”
CRISPR has ignited a gene-editing revolution. These Nobel-winning women scientists were the spark.
Mushrooms that don’t brown. A treatment for sickle-cell anemia. Driving malaria-carrying mosquitoes to extinction. Resurrecting the woolly mammoth. Editing genes in human embryos to make “CRISPR has ignited a gene-editing revolution. These Nobel-winning women scientists were the spark.”
You can get reinfected with Covid-19 but may still have immunity. Let’s explain.
Researchers at the University of Nevada have reported that a 25-year-old man was reinfected in June with SARS-CoV-2, the virus the causes Covid-19. He joins “You can get reinfected with Covid-19 but may still have immunity. Let’s explain.”
Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything?
Much ink has been spilled over the “replication crisis” in the last decade and a half, including here at Vox. Researchers have discovered, over and “Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything?”
The 4 simple reasons Germany is managing Covid-19 better than its neighbors
Germany gets a lot of favorable Covid-19 press — and for good reason. Its daily new cases per million people have been persistently lower than “The 4 simple reasons Germany is managing Covid-19 better than its neighbors”
The absurd controversy over Joe Biden’s “transition away from the oil industry”
At the second and final 2020 presidential debate on Thursday, when asked by President Donald Trump if he would “close down the oil industry,” former “The absurd controversy over Joe Biden’s “transition away from the oil industry””
Why the record low Arctic sea ice this October is so alarming
For the past five months, Melinda Webster has lived on an icebreaker ship frozen in an ice floe near the North Pole. For Webster, a “Why the record low Arctic sea ice this October is so alarming”
Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.
The fossil fuel industry has not been doing well lately. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, growth in global demand had slowed to 1 percent “Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.”