by Grace B. Kalere ’24 | Jan 18, 2021 | Science & Tech
Tesla, Inc., the American electric automaker with the 49-year-old chief executive officer (CEO) Elon Musk behind the wheel, is nothing short of impressive. The year 2020, one for history books, was quite a challenge for many because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In...
by Isabella Ginsburg ’23 | Jan 18, 2021 | Frontpage, Science & Tech
Just as vaccines began to offer hope for the end of the pandemic, Britain raised a sudden alarm about a highly contagious new variant of coronavirus, called B117, circulating in England. South Africa has also reported a new variant, named 501.V2, believed to be...
by Cynthia Jin ’22 | Jan 18, 2021 | Science & Tech
At the time of writing, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. has reached 21.1 million, with more than 357,000 resulting deaths. Vaccines, a long term strategy, are crucial to stop the pandemic. Currently, two COVID-19 vaccines—one manufactured by...
by Roger Ge ’21 | Jan 18, 2021 | Science & Tech
Recently, many companies around the world have announced their vaccines aimed to target and hopefully quell the COVID-19 pandemic. Of these, one particular type of vaccine has garnered some attention: mRNA vaccines. Most of the vaccines that are in widespread use up...
by Ken Zhang ’23 | Jan 18, 2021 | Science & Tech
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a novel challenge for laboratories all over the world. Laboratory work in general requires many precautions, and with COVID-19, these precautions have been heightened. Just as anywhere else, difficulties in conducting scientific...
by Will Simon ’23 | Dec 20, 2020 | Science & Tech
Early on the morning on December 5th, a Nor’easter, dubbed by the Weather Channel as “Winter Storm Eartha”, left hundreds of thousands of civilians across the northeast without power, according to theweatherchannel.com. This storm relatively early in the season dumped...