Tag: health
Days with both extreme heat and extreme air pollution are becoming...
Yangyang Xu, Texas A&M University and Xiaohui Xu, Texas A&M University
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The big...
What doctors know about lingering symptoms of coronavirus
William Petri, University of Virginia
With over 2 million cases in the U.S. since the coronavirus pandemic began in late December, there are now many...
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety
Corinne Post, Lehigh University ; Dave Ketchen, Auburn University; George Ball, Indiana University, and Kaitlin Wowak, University of Notre Dame
The Research Brief is a...
How to protest during a pandemic and still keep everyone safe...
Thomas A. Russo, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
“WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC,” Denver Black Lives Matter activist Tay Anderson...
How coronavirus contact tracing works in a state Dr. Fauci praised...
Jenny Meredith, University of South Carolina
After weeks of keeping people home to “flatten the curve,” restrictions on U.S. businesses are loosening and the coronavirus...
Lyme disease symptoms could be mistaken for COVID-19, with serious consequences
Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond
Summer is field season for ecologists like me, a time when my colleagues, students and I go out into fields...
You don’t need to worry about spreading the coronavirus with cash
Marilyn Roberts, University of Washington
Some people worry that cash may be spreading the coronavirus.
Earlier this year, both China and South Korea began sterilizing their...
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...
