Tag: New 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...
How Apple and Google will let your phone warn you if...
Johannes Becker, Boston University and David Starobinski, Boston University
On April 10, Apple and Google announced a coronavirus exposure notification system that will be built...
Videoconferencing keeps people connected while the coronavirus keeps them inside –...
Elizabeth Stoycheff, Wayne State University
If, before COVID-19, you were concerned about all the data that technology companies had about you, just wait. As stay-at-home...
The new coronavirus is hitting colleges and universities hard, but donors...
William Plater, IUPUI; Gene Tempel, Indiana University, and Genevieve Shaker, IUPUI
Amid concerns about the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a rapidly growing number of colleges and...
US workplaces are nowhere near ready to contain a coronavirus outbreak
Karen Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The new coronavirus has spread rapidly around the globe since its discovery late last year in China. It has...
Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years
Leslie S. Leighton, Georgia State University
The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an...
What is a super spreader? An infectious disease expert explains
Elizabeth McGraw, Pennsylvania State University
As the emerging Wuhan coronavirus outbreak dominates the daily news, you might be wondering just how the pathogen is working...
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...
