When soap and water aren’t available, hand sanitizer can help protect against disease-causing microbes like the novel coronavirus. With concerns about COVID-19 running high, supplies of hand sanitizer at local stores may start to run low. If they run out,…
A once-bustling city at the heart of China is now a ghost town, with few people on the streets and drones flying above. Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, has been under an unprecedented lockdown for the…
A schematic drawing of the Cascadia subduction zone. New research suggests that tiny, imperceptible quakes in the region are connected to the movement of fluid deep below the surface. Every 14 months, silent earthquakes ever-so-slightly rattle the Cascadia subduction zone,…
CORONAVIRUS and the COVID-19 epidemic will be gone for good by the time the first spring Sun rises over Europe, a Polish psychic has astonishingly claimed. The coronavirus has so far infected more than 94,000 people and killed at least…
Most people who catch the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 recover at home, and some need hospitalization to fight the virus. But in a number of patients, the disease called COVID-19 is deadly. Scientists can’t yet say for sure what the fatality…
These office workers didn’t get the memo that sick people should work from home. Every person can do their part to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2. But, in times of uncertainty, it’s easy to make…