Yearly Archives: 2020

Saharan Dust Plume: Images Show Dust Across the Southeast

The plume is easy to track on satellite imagery where viewers can animate their journey to view the historical dust concentration as a giant brown mass spanning 5,000 miles. As of Friday morning, the dust covered “the Sunshine State”, making it more like the “Misty State”. “Saharan dust is definitely …

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The coronavirus is even more sinister than we suspected.

The new coronavirus’s reputation for messing with scientists’ assumptions has taken a really creepy turn. Researchers exploring the interaction between the coronavirus and its hosts have found that when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects a human cell, it triggers a macabre transformation. Obeying the virus’s instructions, the newly infected cell sprouts …

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