Tag: SARS-CoV-2
How mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna work, why they’re a...
Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University
As the weather cools, the number of infections of the COVID-19 pandemic are rising sharply. Hamstrung by pandemic fatigue, economic constraints...
Stressful times are an opportunity to teach children resilience
Vanessa LoBue, Rutgers University - Newark
Between the global COVID-19 pandemic, the associated economic downturn and widespread protests over racism, it’s difficult for everyone....
A tiny circular racetrack for light can rapidly detect single molecules
Judith Su, University of Arizona
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
My Little Sensor Lab at the University of...
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...
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...
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....
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...
5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic...
Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University and Eva Kassens-Noor, Michigan State University
Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
