Technology & Science

However, some experts caution that future versions of the technology are ripe for abuse. For example, it could enable stalkers...

Two weeks ago, national and world health authorities--and armchair experts and worried well-meaning people--were warning anyone concerned about Covid-19 to...

Early last week, Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, got an urgent email...

Next week, blood banks across the Netherlands are set to begin a nationwide experiment. As donations arrive--about 7,000 of them...

We humans weren't ready for the novel coronavirus--and neither were the machines. The pandemic has come at an awkward time,...

By now, you may have noticed a divide among your friends. As social distancing and self-imposed quarantine wear on and...

An anti-malaria medicine called hydroxychloroquine might be a rescue drug for Covid-19--or maybe not. Or another anti-inflammatory drug, such as...

On Monday, Mo Korchinski drove to pick a woman up from prison. Korchinski is the project administrator for Unlocking the...

Last week I wrote about the alarming math of a viral pandemic. We talked about how infectious diseases spread exponentially,...

Hanage says it's difficult to know exactly how long such interventions need to be in place. Public health officials can't...