Jha & Carroll, The Atlantic
While many watched the coronavirus spread across the globe with disinterest for months, in the last week, most of us have finally realized it will disrupt our way of life. A recent analysis from Imperial College is now making some Americans, including many experts, panic.
Emma Yasinski, The Scientist
Researchers at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo report the existence of a new class of proteins in Drosophila and human cell extracts that may serve as shields that protect other proteins from becoming damaged and causing disease.
Howard Lee, Quanta
Roughly 60 million years ago, circulation changes deep within our planet generated a hot current of rock the Iceland plume causing it to rise from the heart of Earth's mantle. When the mantle rock pierced the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, lava spurted across Scotland, Ireland and Greenland, scabbing into spectacular columned landscapes like the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and Scotland's Fingal's Cave.
Ross Pomeroy, RCS
Aristotle, Plato, Socrates... Ancient Greece's charismatic philosophers define the civilization's legacy in popular memory. Often forgotten are the technological inventions that set Greece apart from other societies during classical antiquity, which roughly spanned between the 8th century BC and the 6th century CE.
