Category: Science

At first, the witnesses claimed, all you noticed were the lights. They were so bright you could read by them, so brilliant that a policeman described them as “like lights on a huge football field.” Only gradually did you notice the object they emitted from — a hulking triangular shape, with three enormous spotlights pointed […]

Once the coronavirus infects a human body, what happens? Here’s everything you need to know: What exactly is the coronavirus? A virus is a parasitic microbe, so tiny that hundreds of millions could fit on the head of a pin. It’s a coiled strand of genetic material embedded in a protective coat of protein that […]

When I set out to write this piece, my goal was to give readers some practical sense of the most likely economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis: a best-to-worst range of outcomes. That proved difficult for a few reasons. First, we’ve never really dealt with anything like this, at least in the modern economic era. […]

The country with the largest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to date, of course, is China. Next is Italy. And third in this grim ranking, with more than 16,000 cases and nearly 1,000 deaths as of this writing, is Iran. But Iran also has something no other nation with a significant cluster of infections must […]