The latest surge of COVID-19 is spurring new restrictions across the country.

One of the highlights in the Physics World calendar is the announcement of our Breakthrough of the Year, which will be made this year on Thursday 17 December.

In a world where conspiracy theories and political polarization abound, how does one effectively pull off double duty at battling against both the spread of COVID-19 and misinformation about it?

American democracy, always perhaps less sturdy than we imagined, has shown itself of late to be alarmingly fragile. Its survival depends on a number of elements currently in short supply: elected officials who abide not just by the law but by long-observed Constitutional principles and norms of behavior; a body politic animated more by the better angels of our nature than by our baser instincts or a cynical grasping after power; and, finally, on some minimum number of agreed-upon facts, and a shared sense of reality, among the citizenry.

An Australia-based buyer has bought the land where the Las Vegas' first racially integrated hotel-casino used to sit.

After an unprecedented, pandemic-caused shutdown during the spring of 2020, Las Vegas continues its slow recovery. Sin City aims to manage the coronavirus pandemic until vaccines begin arriving for the most vulnerable people, hopefully before New Year’s.

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will make recommendations at a hearing on Thursday regarding the approval of one of the two leading vaccines for COVID-19, but in addition to the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness concerns, experts in Nevada are faced with determining how they will get approved doses to the people who need them.

As the United Kingdom officially begins its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, we are inching closer to the same here in the United States. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new data, giving more insight into how effective the COVID-19 vaccine really is.