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Undetected cases The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now become pandemic. How has it managed to spread from China to all around the world within 3 to 4 months? Li et al. used multiple sources to infer the proportion of early infections that went undetected and their contribution to virus spread. The researchers […]

Public Health England did not increase testing for Covid-19 as quickly as was needed to control the spread of the virus, the government’s chief scientific adviser has suggested. Sir Patrick Vallance’s comments echo those of Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, who said a week ago that Germany “got ahead” in testing people for Covid-19 […]

Raising the bar On Feb. 2, the day after Dr. Inglis discovered the swarm on Twitter around the study comparing H.I.V. and coronavirus, the Indian researchers withdrew their paper after other scientists knocked down its findings. Faced with the public misuse of the Indian team’s findings, Dr. Inglis and Dr. Sever decided to add a […]

In a weekend tweet, President Donald Trump erroneously described a New York Times article, falsely stating that it said the coronavirus originated in Europe and suggesting that it had no named sources. The story, which reported on new genomic analyses of some of the first coronavirus cases in the New York area, made no such […]

Aaron Geller/Northwestern University By Amanda HeidtApr. 13, 2020 , 5:45 PM You’re looking at the brightest supernova ever recorded, a celestial explosion so massive it has blotted out the light of its surrounding galaxy for the past 4 billion years. First discovered at Hawaii’s Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System observatory in 2016, scientists […]

Good evening. I’m Diya Chacko, and it’s Monday, April 13. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus outbreak in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the […]

The fact that so many people are stuck at home makes for strange opportunities. Italy’s confined populace has taken to singing from the balconies — and now researchers are asking them to use those same balconies to help accomplish a bit of citizen science. The project, created by the Italian National Research Council, aims to […]

The solar system’s first recorded interstellar visitor has a new proposed origin story. The enigmatic celestial object known as ‘Oumuamua might be a shard of a planet ripped apart by its star’s gravity, researchers suggest April 13 in Nature Astronomy. Ever since ‘Oumuamua showed up in our solar system in 2017, astronomers have struggled to […]

By Adrienne Burns The College of Arts and Science will convert four programs and one center into full departments, following approval from the Board of Trust. The programs in Asian Studies, Cinema and Media Arts, Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, will become departments […]

This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. March 31, 2020 by Claudia Geib If this winter had gone as planned, Bethany Jenkins would be getting ready to board a 274-foot research vessel called Atlantis right about now to head east across the Atlantic Ocean. But everything changed when the novel coronavirus […]