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Starry night sky over a closed telescope unit at the Very Large Telescope in Chile

How researchers are making do in the time of Covid

The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered labs and sidelined scientists all over the world. Here’s a look at how some of them have coped.

A classic mural displays a host of human figures of varied ages, affluence and ethnicity, including Native Americans, against a backdrop of ships, locomotives, buildings under construction and a covered wagon.

Society

American individualism and our collective crisis

Our national and social identity is deeply rooted in values like freedom, equality and order. A political scientist explores how these ideas affected the US response to the pandemic.

A falsely colored image combines a time-lapse image of the trajectory of larger droplets and the still image showing the distribution of a diffuse gas cloud of saliva and mucus. Most of the larger droplets are pulled down by gravity well before the smaller droplets carried in the gas cloud.

Physical World

To understand airborne transmission of disease, follow the flow

Viruses and bacteria travel in fluids, such as the air we breathe. Studying exhalations, toilet flushes and rain drops, with math and modeling, can sharpen the big-picture view of how to prevent infections.

Conceptual illustration showing a mouse and virus particles

Health & Disease

Building a mouse squad against Covid-19

It began with an email from Wuhan, a Maine laboratory and mouse sperm from Iowa. Now that lab is on the verge of supplying a much-needed animal for SARS-CoV-2 research.

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How researchers are making do in the time of Covid

American individualism and our collective crisis

To understand airborne transmission of disease, follow the flow

Building a mouse squad against Covid-19

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