Climate change tweets declined as COVID worries rose

Can a global problem like COVID lead to less concern for other problems like climate change? A look at Twitter suggests the answer is yes.

Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook • futurity
Oct. 21, 2022 ~5 min

MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit

The system measures biological and environmental changes, and detects contact between the mask and the wearer’s skin.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 20, 2022 ~7 min


Wastewater captures COVID outbreaks even before test results

Wastewater may capture the number of COVID-19 infections in a community—even before testing results or hospitals become overcrowded.

Brandie Jefferson-WUSTL • futurity
Oct. 17, 2022 ~5 min

People harmed by COVID more likely to push for equality

Being harmed by the pandemic may give people a better understanding of the structural sources of inequality.

Sara Savat-WUSTL • futurity
Oct. 17, 2022 ~7 min

COVID-19 rapid tests can breed confusion – here's how to make sense of the results and what to do, according to 3 testing experts

Rapid tests can be an incredibly useful tool for early detection of COVID-19. Unfortunately, they sometimes leave people with more questions than answers.

Yukari Manabe, Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University • conversation
Oct. 13, 2022 ~9 min

Can a common gene variant explain different COVID outcomes?

Researchers have shown that mice with gene variants previously linked to Alzheimer's disease were at greater risk of dying of COVID.

Katherine Fenz-Rockefeller • futurity
Oct. 12, 2022 ~8 min

Is pandemic finally over? We asked the experts.

Harvard faculty discuss changes to views on school, work, winter’s likely surge, danger of "lethal inflexibility."

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 11, 2022 ~11 min

Future pandemic strategy should consider these factors

Accounting for ethnicity and social factors may improve the strategies public health officials use in future pandemic, researchers report.

Rachel Cramer-Iowa State • futurity
Oct. 10, 2022 ~6 min


The magic of touch: how deafblind people taught us to 'see' the world differently during COVID

A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown

Azadeh Emadi, Lecturer in Screen Production, School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow • conversation
Oct. 10, 2022 ~21 min

AI finds old drugs that can treat new COVID variants

Big data and artificial intelligence are helping determine if drugs already on the market can pull double duty to treat new COVID variants.

Michigan State • futurity
Oct. 7, 2022 ~4 min

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