Four separate climate research teams are forecasting that the 2020-21 North Atlantic hurricane season will be busier than normal, predicting that roughly 20 named tropical cyclones will form in the North Atlantic Basin, and possibly as high as 25 storms, according to Penn State’s predictions. The four teams, from AccuWeather, Colorado Stateread more

Health experts around the world are trying to unravel the puzzle as to why COVID-19 infections appear to be relatively benign in some individuals who contract the disease, while others have potentially fatal—and all too often outright deadly—reactions to the coronavirus. Toward that end, researchers are looking to the DNAread more

Whether or not a given person will get COVID-19 is unknown. Even if they do get it, healthy people are likely either to not get sick at all or recover after an illness not a lot more severe than the flu. On the other hand, not having any money, notread more