Severe COVID-19 Reaction? Blame Neanderthals

Severe COVID-19 Reaction? Blame Neanderthals

The overwhelming majority who have gotten or ever will get COVID-19, resulting from the third coronavirus pandemic, named SARS-CoV-2, of this century, won't know it. Most who are not asymptomatic…
Pandemic Work Bubbles Can Help Businesses Reopen

Pandemic Work Bubbles Can Help Businesses Reopen

Businesses would like to return to business as usual and government officials reliant on taxes desperately need a return to normal. The people arguing lockdowns need to occur indefinitely live on…
How Does A Virus Win?

How Does A Virus Win?

To estimate infection rates of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, immunologists use a basic reproduction number, known as R0 (pronounced “R naught”) - an expression of the number of people likely to catch a…
Those Rare Decays Of Kaons

Those Rare Decays Of Kaons

Particle Physics deals with the study of the elementary constituents of matter, and the interactions that they withstand. When non-insiders hear of elementary particles and the experiments that study…
How To Murder A Quasiparticle

How To Murder A Quasiparticle

In large systems of interacting particles in quantum mechanics, groups of particles can begin to behave like single particles. Physicists refer to such groups of particles as quasiparticles and…