Tag: designing

As COVID-19 began to spread last spring, apps were developed to track cellphone signals and other data so people who had been near those who were infected could be notified and asked to quarantine. The novel coronavirus rapidly outpaced such efforts, becoming so widespread that tracing individual exposures could not contain it. But the issues

A heartfelt homage. Ric Ocasek’s children are designing his headstone following The Cars frontman’s September death, his estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova, revealed. “A simple little mushroom taken off our porch, for now, marks the resting place of their dad,” the model, 54, captioned a Thursday, January 16, Instagram post. “The real thing is being designed

A newly published paper in PNAS details a research breakthrough that provides a promising starting point for scientists to create drugs that can cure C. diff—a virulent health care-associated infection that causes severe diarrhea, nausea, internal bleeding, and potentially death. The bacteria affects roughly half-a-million Americans and causes nearly 15,000 deaths in the U.S. annually.