Month: September 2020

• The cost of “herd immunity” for COVID-19 is too high

  My latest comic with Maki Naro is up at The Nib, the award-winning nonfiction comics site! This time we tackle the question of “herd immunity” for the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been suggested by a number of politicians as a strategy for beating the disease. As Maki and I describe, without a vaccine, this is […]

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  Matthew R. Francis

  September 16, 2020

  Comics

  COVID-19, epidemiology, herd immunity, pandemic

• Sizing up the weirdest objects in the universe

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] How big is a neutron star? Astrophysicists are combining multiple methods to reveal the secrets of some of the weirdest objects in the universe. For Symmetry Magazine: Neutron stars […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 2, 2020

  Symmetry Magazine

  gravitational waves, kilonovas, neutron stars, pulsars, X-ray astronomy