Tag: COVID-19
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...
Pregnancy during a pandemic: The stress of COVID-19 on pregnant women...
Jennifer C. Ablow, University of Oregon and Elinor Sullivan, Oregon Health & Science University
Pregnancy is stressful, to say the least, but COVID-19 brings new...
Why contemplating death can help you live a happier life
Steve Taylor, Leeds Beckett University
How do you feel about the idea of dying? Is it something you think about often? Or does it make...
Teens want COVID-19 advice that gives them safe ways to socialize...
Tammy Chang, University of Michigan and Matthew Dunn, University of Michigan
America’s teens and young adults have a crucial role in containing the spread of...
Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024, major...
Pep Canadell, CSIRO and Rob Jackson, Stanford University
The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by...
What a smoky bar can teach us about the ‘6-foot rule’...
Byron Erath, Clarkson University; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University; Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University, and Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University
When people envision social distancing, they typically think...
Philosophy and psychology agree – yelling at people who aren’t wearing...
Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University, State University of New York
There is strong scientific evidence that wearing a mask reduces the risk of transmitting the coronavirus....
How the Civil War drove medical innovation – and the pandemic...
Jeffrey Clemens, University of California San Diego
The current COVID-19 pandemic, the largest public health crisis in a century, threatens the health of people across...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
