While there's no evidence the coronavirus is spread through food or packaging, company executives could be prosecuted…
All of the senses have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, not because the senses have changed, but because the world…
Human beings have difficulty assessing distant threats.
The government doesn't know how many people have died of COVID-19, in part because it didn't require nursing homes…
The pandemic magnifies existing imbalances in wealth, access to health care and workplace rights.
There is plenty the military could do to help protect public health, such as by helping with supply logistics and providing…
Instead of waiting for a crisis to seek help, new college students should proactively devise plans to ensure their mental…
Persecution is central to Jewish collective memory. So when armed police entered ultra-Orthodox areas of Jerusalem to close…
Images of religious buildings being used to treat the sick shouldn't come as surprise. The practice has a long tradition,…
One way that farms can handle shortages of protective gear for workers is by switching to less-toxic pest control methods.
Pets might not protect us from the coronavirus, but they can help us get better.
Every time the virus copies itself it makes mistakes, creating a trail that researchers can use to build a family tree with…
Seven of the past 10 business bailouts since 1969 have either broke even, or more frequently, ended up making a tidy profit…
When you're stuck at home during social distancing, it's only natural to feel on edge at times. So how do you listen…
Tomanowos, aka the Willamette Meteorite, may be the world's most interesting rock. Its story includes catastrophic ice…
Educating your children at home doesn't have to resemble the kind of education that takes place in a regular classroom,…
From burial sites targeted by grave robbers to disposing of ashes at sea, the job of disposing of the unclaimed dead has…
The rush to make personal protective equipment like facemasks and face shields using 3D printers shows that the technology…
Thirty years ago the Hubble Space Telescope began snapping photos of distant stars, providing a time machine that has taken…
Aerosols are the tiny particles of liquid and material that float around in our environment. When they come from an infected…