In his daily coronavirus briefings, President Trump regularly touts the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as possibly one of the “biggest game-changers in the history of medicine”–based on what seems to be a few anecdotal reports of mild benefits in Covid-19 patients. When a reporter asked Anthony Fauci, director of the National […]
How Long Does the Coronavirus Live on Surfaces? Covid-19 FAQs
If you’ve got kids at home, it’s even more important to maintain a daily routine. Try to stick to a typical schedule: breakfast at breakfast time, schoolwork or structured playtime during the day, and some activity in the afternoon. If you need to lean on television or a tablet more […]
An Imbalance Among Tiny Particles Offers a Big Cosmology Clue
Physicists have detected the strongest evidence yet of a behavioral difference between elementary particles called neutrinos and their mirror-image twins, antineutrinos. The asymmetry could be the key to why so much more matter than antimatter arose during the Big Bang–further explaining why anything at all exists today, since matter and […]
The Cold, Hard Work of Delivering Oxygen to Ventilators
Problems are more common at a hospital, with vaporizers or other equipment. The networks of pipes that move the gas through the building can be overwhelmed, especially when demand is high. Some pipes move pure oxygen. Others carry “medical air,” which has been filtered and dried. If the dehumidifiers that […]