No Purell? No problem! When disinfecting gel sells out everywhere, you can just make some yourself with stuff you (maybe)...
Smartphones could be a powerful weapon against the novel coronavirus. But tracking people's movements would offend many Americans' sense of...
The international committee tasked with classifying viruses has named the new one SARS-CoV-2, because of its close genetic ties to...
Coronaviruses are divided into four groups called genera: alpha, beta, gamma, and delta. These little invaders are zoonotic, meaning they...
Yes, working from home has its perks. You’re always there to accept deliveries. You can play whatever music you want...
Vaccines all work on the same basic principle: Scientists try to make something that closely resembles a pathogen, and then...
In March, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci told US senators, “It will take at least...
In general, these timelines are very difficult to compress. The last thing drugmakers and regulators want is to rush out...
There’s another factor that makes developing a vaccine against coronavirus a particularly tricky endeavor, says Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher...
Ground squirrels do it. So do human fetuses. How did we all end up with this unhygienic habit? By now...
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with...
Since 1918, the world has experienced three additional pandemics, in 1957, 1968, and most recently in 2009. These subsequent pandemics...