Tag: COVID-19
With prizes, food, housing and cash, Putin rigged Russia’s most recent...
Regina Smyth, Indiana University
When Russians voted in early July on 200 constitutional amendments, officials rigged the election to create the illusion that President Vladimir...
Aerosols are a bigger coronavirus threat than WHO guidelines suggest –...
Byron Erath, Clarkson University; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University, and Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University
When someone coughs, talks or even breathes, they send tiny respiratory droplets...
Street vendors make cities livelier, safer and fairer – here’s why...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cities around the world are emerging from pandemic shutdowns and gradually allowing activities to resume. National leaders...
Group testing for coronavirus – called pooled testing – could be...
Darius Lakdawalla, University of Southern California and Erin Trish, University of Southern California
Hopes for a summertime reprieve from COVID-19 have been dashed as cases...
Ethical challenges loom over decisions to resume in-person college classes
Neta C. Crawford, Boston University
By early July, about 80% of U.S. campuses were planning to resume at least some in-person instruction, even as a...
How to manage plant pests and diseases in your victory garden
Matt Kasson, West Virginia University; Brian Lovett, West Virginia University, and Carolee Bull, Pennsylvania State University
Home gardening is having a boom year across the...
Mexico City buried its rivers to prevent disease and unwittingly created...
Elena Delavega, University of Memphis
Mexico City is a dust bowl, a polluted megalopolis where breathing is hard and newly washed clothes hung out to...
The US isn’t in a second wave of coronavirus – the...
Melissa Hawkins, American University
After sustained declines in the number of COVID-19 cases over recent months, restrictions are starting to ease across the United States....
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...
