When I wrote a post on COVID-19 in February, the death toll was 425 with a total of 20,000 confirmed cases. Now, a mere six months later, the numbers have climbed to a staggering 700,000 deaths and…read more >>

This week’s blog post was written by guest blogger, Liz Ashforth. For this post, Liz examines how increasing greenhouse emissions are contributing to a rise in the prevalence of “compound hot…read more >>

This week’s blog post was written by guest blogger, Liz Ashforth. For this post, Liz discovered research that shows how computer vision and signal processing algorithms can make health exams safer…read more >>

Murder Hornets are oversized wasps with a menacing scowl, a venomous stinger, and enough venom to be lethal to humans. But that’s not what has most folks nervous: Murder hornets, also known as…read more >>

Bill Gates warned against a global pandemic years ago.
In a Business Insider op-ed from 2017, Bill Gates stated, “Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist,…read more >>

COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has created a global lockdown, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in over a century. Responses in hot spots have varied from recommended social…read more >>

In my post from February 4th on the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of confirmed cases was 20,000. Now, the number is more than 100 times higher, with over 2.6 million confirmed…read more >>

During this time, when so much of what we see in the news is bleak, I’m taking a bit of advice from the New York Times columnist, Kevin Roose. In his article, “How to Stop Coronavirus ‘Doomsurfing’,”…read more >>

There’s a lot we don’t yet know about the Wuhan coronavirus (2019 nCoV, later renamed COVID-19), but we do know that it is spreading faster than the 2003 outbreak of SARS.
According to CNN, the 2003…read more >>

Underwater photography is hard to get right. Special filters, artificial lights, and top-of-the-line underwater cameras can help, but there’s still a lot of water between the camera and the object in…read more >>