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With research projects on hold due to social distancing guidelines, scientists are being forced to decide what to do with the creatures that they study. Above, a Chilean rose tarantula on display at an exhibition in Hannover, Germany on Nov. 23, 2019. Peter Steffen/dpa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Bring Home The Tarantulas? As Research Halts, Scientists Face Difficult Decisions
Stanford medical student Thomas Koehnkz takes a blood sample from Alan Wessel of Mountain View, Calif., for a coronavirus antibody study. Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images hide caption
Cave nectar bat (Eonycteris spelaea) from Singapore. Justin Ng/Linfa Wang hide caption
People, some wearing masks, walk down a street in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York on Tuesday. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Employees and family members protest outside a Smithfield Foods processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota last week. The plant has had an outbreak of coronavirus cases. Stephen Groves/AP hide caption
Several countries around the world are emitting less carbon due to the pandemic slowdown, but the climate will continue to warm. Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Nurses and health care workers mourn and remember their colleagues who died during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus during a demonstration outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Kate Devlin, who studies human-computer interactions, says we're on the cusp of a sexual revolution driven by robotics and artificial intelligence. Angela Hsieh/NPR hide caption
Health experts say they're not yet sure about the level of immunity people may have after recovering from COVID-19. Here, a man wears a protective mask as he passes a mural in New York City, where the COVID-19 death toll has passed 10,000. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rick Wittenmyer shops for groceries at the West Side Market, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Cleveland. There were fewer shoppers this year before the Easter holiday than in previous years due to the coronavirus. Tony Dejak/AP hide caption
A women in a mask greets her father in the arrivals area at terminal E at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts on March 13, 2020. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
When you listen to a story, your brain waves actually start to synchronize with those of the storyteller. And reading a narrative activates brain regions involved in deciphering or imagining a person's motives and perspective, research has found. aywan88/Getty Images hide caption
Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Deborah Birx, speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on Friday. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Some people are now wearing disposable gloves with the hope of getting some protection against coronavirus pathogens. What do doctors have to say about that? Photo Illustration by Max Posner/NPR hide caption
A man wearing a protective mask in Dubai on March 23. Karim Sahib /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A do-it-yourself mask culture is springing up in the Czech Republic. This woman was photographed on the Charles Bridge in Prague on March 28. Michal Cizek/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Close-up of modern flax cordage showing twisted fiber construction. S. Deryck hide caption