Distance learning makes it harder for kids to exercise, especially in low-income communities
Katelyn Esmonde, Johns Hopkins University and Keshia Pollack Porter, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
This fall hasn’t felt much like “back to school”...
Two of Us: inside John Lennon’s incredible songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney
Adam Behr, Newcastle University
John Lennon was acutely aware of his place in the musical lineage, and the strengths and weaknesses of his own songwriting....
How an Alberta researcher’s discovery of hepatitis C led to the Nobel Prize and...
John Bergeron, McGill University
This year, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to virologists Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and...
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
Coronavirus: Is the cure worse than the disease? The most divisive question of 2020
<Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died, including 100,000...
Why a vaccine can provide better immunity than an actual infection
Maitreyi Shivkumar, De Montfort University
Two recent studies have confirmed that people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be reinfected with...
African health research needs support: here’s one programme that’s working
Jude Igumbor, University of the Witwatersrand
African countries bear a disproportionate burden of infectious and noncommunicable diseases. More than two thirds of people living with...
Blood pressure medications decrease death and severe disease in COVID-19 patients
Vassilios Vassiliou, University of East Anglia and Ranu Baral
At the start of the pandemic, there was concern that certain drugs for high blood pressure...
