The New York Times raised eyebrows this week with a collection of "related" op-eds about former Vice President Joe Biden.First flagged by journalist Peter Hamby, the Times published an opinion piece on Sunday titled "How to Outflank Trump Online," which was written by veterans of the Buttigieg and Yang presidential campaigns regarding the Biden campaign's…
A new study is raising concerns about the ability of coronavirus particles to linger in the air, especially in areas with little ventilation. The study published Monday in the journal Nature Research was conducted by a researcher at Wuhan University in China and tested the concentration of genetic material at two hospitals treating patients with COVID-19. According to Bloomberg, the…
Biobot Analytics co-founders Mariana Matus (L) and Newsha Ghaeli (R) in their lab in Somerville, MA. Biobot Analytics Mariana Matus says she learned firsthand what it meant not to have access to healthcare services growing up in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood in Mexico City. It was that passion that led her to develop the technology…
Worldwide, there are numerous efforts underway to create a vaccine for COVID-19. Without one, we are likely to see some form of social distancing in place for the foreseeable future. And experts like Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, think it’ll take at least a year before we’ll…
People stand in line as they wait to get tested for COVID-19 at a just-opened testing center in the Harlem section of New York on Monday. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption toggle caption Seth Wenig/AP People stand in line as they wait to get tested for COVID-19 at a just-opened testing center in the Harlem section…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…