The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others?
The coronavirus has killed so many people in Iran that the country has resorted to mass burials, but in neighboring Iraq, the body count is fewer than…
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Millions around the globe have made a sudden transition to remote work amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Not surprisingly, this has some employers concerned about maintaining employee productivity. Read More
There are billions of mobile phones in use around the globe. They are present on every single continent, in every single country and in every single city. Read More
SARS, Ebola and now SARS-CoV-2: all three of these highly infectious viruses have caused global panic since 2002–and all three of them jumped to humans from wild… Read More
Covid-19 infection rates have been subject to a ” vast undercount,” by a factor of 50 or more. A pair of studies based on antibody tests in California… Read More
A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low
They call them corona taxis: Medics outfitted in protective gear, driving around the empty streets of Heidelberg to check on patients who are at home, five or…
Like many other websites at the moment, the career-oriented networking platform LinkedIn has seen a big boost in traffic as a result of people being asked to work from… Read More
Being in isolation without access to gyms and sports clubs should not mean people stop exercising, according to a new study from researchers at the University of… Read More
As many of us are being told to hunker down in our apartments and houses, and limit trips outside and social contact, things are feeling pretty “real”… Read More
Fresh from a six-month space expedition, NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor shares how her bioscience experiments in microgravity could improve medicine on Earth. Read More