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The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.

A South African tip led to the discovery of mutations around the world. With infections skyrocketing, “it’s a race against time.”

Du Bois’ time as editor of The Crisis was just as much about critically embracing careful, systematic, empirical science as it was about skewering the popular view that Blacks (and other nonwhites) were naturally inferior.

One of the most basic processes in all of nature—a subatomic particle’s transition between discrete energy states—is surprisingly complex and sometimes predictable, recent work shows

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Let “natural herd immunity” as a pandemic relief strategy be extinguished with the end of 2020.

And what it lost in the process

President Cyril Ramaphosa expected to announce new restrictions in attempt to slow the surge