Articles Containing Tag: COVID

Brood X Cicadas Make a Rare Appearance Most Cicadas are annual insects – meaning they reappear each year, usually in Spring or Summer – but some are periodical broods. These spend anywhere from 13 to 17 years underground, drinking sap… Read More

Fukushima’s Ten-Year Mark The Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 was the worst in 30 years. After a 9.1 magnitude undersea earthquake caused a tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, experienced a failure of the emergency generators. This caused… Read More

We’re Back In Business Well, it’s not the new normal that people believed would come. It’s the same old normal in many states that Americans experienced before the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirteen states (as of the time of this writing) have… Read More

The coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 100 million people, crashed the economy, and given us a “new normal” to get used to. But scientists have defied expectations and made multiple vaccines in less than a year. What are they, and… Read More

What About the Latest COVID Discoveries? Just as the vaccine for COVID-19 begins to be distributed, scientists have found new strains that appear to be more contagious. New variants of the virus have been found in the United Kingdom, Australia,… Read More

Nearly a year after the first coronavirus case was confirmed in China, have scientists made a vaccine for the illness? One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies says it has an effective COVID-19 vaccine. Is the public health crisis finished?… Read More

The COVID Cooking Renaissance The coronavirus pandemic has changed a lot about how we are used to doing things. Most of those things might be negative, but one of the positive trends to come about from the shutdowns is the… Read More

Like most things in this Coronavirus pandemic, school closures have become a political topic of debate. At the same time, schoolchildren have been suffering, growing older and falling further behind in their education. The Start of the Debate Preventing the… Read More

Then and Now When Coronavirus first hit America, there was a lot of misinformation and debate regarding the use of masks in public. First, regular folks weren’t to use masks, as they were needed by medical professionals. Still, many rushed… Read More

At a recent birthday celebration, someone asked: “What is one good thing that has happened as a result of the Coronavirus?” The answers sounded like a step back in time. The pandemic has brought back activities from the 20th Century…. Read More

China and the U.S. Aren’t Getting Along The United States and China have not been on the best of terms lately. First, there were the trade wars between the two countries, then the novel Coronavirus that reportedly started in the… Read More