COVID-19 and Novel Coronavirus Updates

NCSE answers questions about coronavirus for teachers.

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. We all really, really, really want this pandemic to be over. If we could somehow go back to the Before Times, when most of us had never…
Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. From the National Writing Project: Writing, like any other art, teaches the entire range of “tools for thinking” that are required to be creative…
On January 28, 2021, The New York Times Magazine cover story, by Brooke Jarvis, was entitled: “What Can COVID-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?” Reader, I loved this story so much, for so many reasons. Because there was cool biology, because it highlighted an area of science that…
Starting in February 2021, each month we shine a light on an aspect of science that is often misunderstood or misrepresented. Read all our Misconception of the Month articles. Fact: Evolution happens because some variants are more successful than others.
Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. So this new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus — is it something to worry about? Is it really more contagious? You may have noticed that news about it…
Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. This week, a story in pictures. I have to tell you, digging into some aspect of the coronavirus pandemic every week can be emotionally difficult.…