When Coronavirus Closes Your Lab, Can Science Go On?

[Stephanie Vose]

Plenty of work can be done from home, but the pandemic is forcing some parts of the scientific process to be put on the shelf.

In recent weeks, coronavirus led to the shutdown of many university campuses and other institutions for research and learning in the United States and around the world.

There’s always work that you can do from home. But parts of the scientific process can only be completed in the lab, or at another location where fieldwork or other hands-on research occurs. What’s a scientist to do when it’s time to put some of their experiments on the shelf?

Here is a collection of stories from around the world on how professors, graduate students and others in the sciences are coping with the effects of coronavirus on their lives and work.