Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano’s edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man. – Adlai Niska citing the fictional despot Shan Yu in Firefly, 1x10: War Stories …

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical, public health and disaster preparedness communities are trying to isolate lessons learned from the harrowing experience of a global outbreak that resulted in little shy of seven million deaths. …

2022 has been an interesting year for healthcare AI/ML. It saw, among others, a consolidation of pandemic-induced practices, such as a shift towards virtual care (especially in primary care), into the ‘new normal’ of healthcare delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred providers and payors alike to rethink traditional models of…

In 1945, influential scientist and government advisor Vannevar Bush published As We May Think, an article of remarkable foresight. In less than a dozen pages, he outlined many futuristic technologies that have come to pass, including hypertext, the personal computer and speech recognition. …

2021 was an exciting year for data science: despite COVID–19 pandemic-related layoffs and budget reductions, the field continued to flourish. According to a survey commissioned by Anaconda, only 37% of companies decreased their investment in data science. …

The COVID Tracking Project has been one of the most successful citizen-driven data collection projects in history. Driven by The Atlantic and supported by an army of volunteers, it has collected the nuggets of information about testing and case counts, often beating federal and state authorities to the race. Yet…

The COVID-19 outbreak is in many ways an outlier. It emerged with unusual speed, spread rapidly throughout the globe and has elicited a public health response that is unprecedented in recent history. Yet this time, humanity faces a pandemic with a wealth of information that would have been unimaginable just…

In the subtitle of his remarkable history about the race for the nuclear bomb, science writer and historian of science Jim Baggott referred to World War II as the “first war of physics”. Today, the efforts waged to curb the COVID-19 pandemic may be the first example of a large-scale…

The year is 1943. Britain’s survival still hangs by a thin, precarious thread, despite America joining the war effort. Just a few months ago, in February 1942, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau, alongside the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, and their escort fleet executed Operation Cerberus — a…