Tag: Pandemic
Millennials drive for 8% fewer trips than older generations
Tom Lyon, University of Michigan; A. Wren Montgomery, Western University, and Kim Wolske, University of Chicago
CC BY-NDMillennials – typically defined as those born between...
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...
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....
Why are so many people lighting off fireworks?
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The number of fireworks being lit off at night is out of control this year.
While people often light off fireworks...
Economic policies can induce people to quarantine safely during the pandemic
Roberto Chang, Rutgers University and Andrés Velasco, London School of Economics and Political Science
Recent economic proposals to deal with COVID-19, like those summarized by...
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...
Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future...
Pamela Soltis, University of Florida; Joseph Cook, University of New Mexico, and Richard Yanagihara, University of Hawaii
In less than 20 years, communities around the...
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...
