The Coronavirus Pandemic

The latest research and developments on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the 2020 global pandemic.

Earth
COVID-19 lockdowns dramatically reduced seismic noise from humans

By Carolyn GramlingJuly 23, 2020
Health & Medicine
To prevent the next pandemic, we might need to cut down fewer trees

By Jonathan LambertJuly 23, 2020
Health & Medicine
A blood test may show which COVID-19 patients steroids will help — or harm

By Tina Hesman SaeyJuly 22, 2020
Health & Medicine
COVID-19 vaccines by Oxford, CanSino and Pfizer all trigger immune responses

By Tina Hesman SaeyJuly 21, 2020
Health & Medicine
Coronavirus-infected cells sprout filaments that may spread the virus

By Jack J. LeeJuly 20, 2020
Animals
The ‘ratpocalypse’ isn’t nigh, according to service call data

By Bethany BrookshireJuly 14, 2020
Health & Medicine
Remdesivir may work even better against COVID-19 than we thought

By Tina Hesman SaeyJuly 13, 2020
Health & Medicine
A COVID-19 vaccine may come soon. Will the blistering pace backfire?

By Tina Hesman SaeyJuly 10, 2020

Health & Medicine
What you need to know about the airborne transmission of COVID-19

By Jonathan LambertJuly 7, 2020
Science & Society
All kinds of outbreaks, from COVID-19 to violence, share the same principles

By Cassandra WillyardJuly 7, 2020
Health & Medicine
How making a COVID-19 vaccine confronts thorny ethical issues

By Bethany BrookshireJuly 7, 2020
Health & Medicine
Why COVID-19 is both startlingly unique and painfully familiar

By Aimee CunninghamJuly 2, 2020
Science & Society
The U.S. largely wasted time bought by COVID-19 lockdowns. Now what?

By Jonathan LambertJuly 1, 2020
Health & Medicine
Here’s what we’ve learned in six months of COVID-19 — and what we still don’t know

By Erin Garcia de JesúsJune 30, 2020
Health & Medicine
Why scientists say wearing masks shouldn’t be controversial

By Tina Hesman SaeyJune 26, 2020
Health & Medicine
Strokes and mental state changes hint at how COVID-19 harms the brain

By Laura SandersJune 25, 2020