Month: March 2022

Many of us dread being alone. We find isolation uncomfortable or downright scary. If you want to know just how eager we are to avoid “How to be alone”

Fourteen thousand years ago, a star called Vela died. Its core collapsed first and then, in a violent burst, propelled the shattered star’s body out “2020 was a time warp”

Winter and the holidays can be hard even in typical years: short days, cold winds, and family stress, to name a few. But the ongoing “You can survive winter and not spread Covid-19. Here’s how.”

“I am seeing tons of hair loss,” Mona Gohara says. Patients come to Gohara, a dermatologist and professor at the Yale School of Medicine, for “The isolation of 2020 is doing weird things to our bodies”

There are around 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild, and about 460 of them live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. In the “Mountain gorillas are distancing, too — from humans”

The room didn’t spin like they say it does. My life didn’t flash before my eyes. I had no difficulty understanding the verdict: It was “I was always terrified of wasting time. A cancer diagnosis made me reconsider.”

Governors, mayors, and public health officials are sounding the alarm about rising levels of Covid-19 across every part of the country. The disease is surging, “How we can encourage people to wear masks — for others’ sake”

As of mid-December, hospitals on average had just 22 percent of their intensive care unit (ICU) beds available across the country, and many were completely “Hospital ICUs are filling up. It’s even worse than it sounds.”

Two highly effective Covid-19 vaccines are now being administered across the United States, and more are in the pipeline. Almost 2 million people have already “The 4 major unknowns of how vaccines will affect the Covid-19 pandemic”

It’s the year 2020, and scientists are still discovering new species of life on Earth. No one knows exactly how many types of life are “In 2020, scientists documented hundreds of new species. Here are a few.”