Building ‘bravery muscles’ to fight rising youth anxiety

Harvard psychologist says pandemic worsened trend and screening, early intervention key to avoiding bigger problems.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 7, 2022 ~10 min

Investing in indoor air quality improvements in schools will reduce COVID transmission and help students learn

A lot of federal money is now available for making school buildings healthier. Two environmental health experts explain how school districts can best use it.

Jonathan Levy, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University • conversation
Oct. 7, 2022 ~9 min


Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-predicted spike

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 7, 2022 ~6 min

Referrals to long COVID clinic fell by 79% following roll-out of the vaccine

Referrals to Cambridge’s long COVID clinic fell dramatically in the period August 2021 to June 2022, which researchers say is likely due to the successful

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 6, 2022 ~5 min

Wiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence

Inspired by jellyfish and octopuses, PhD candidate Juncal Arbelaiz investigates the theoretical underpinnings that will enable systems to more efficiently adapt to their environments.

Sandi Miller | Department of Mathematics • mit
Oct. 2, 2022 ~8 min

Set up reserve lab capacity now for faster response to next pandemic, say researchers

Researchers say a ‘human bottleneck’, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK’s scale-up of COVID-19 testing in the early stages of the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 28, 2022 ~5 min

Expert: You won’t get the flu by touching stuff

There are still lots of good reasons to wash our hands, but avoiding the flu isn't one of them, says expert Emanuel Goldman.

Patti Verbanas-Rutgers • futurity
Sept. 26, 2022 ~6 min

Emergency programs provided kids with 1.5B meals a month in 2020

When schools closed during the pandemic's first year, emergency federal programs helped 30 million kids access nearly 1.5 billion meals each month in 2020.

Jake Ellison-U. Washington • futurity
Sept. 26, 2022 ~6 min


CRISPR could make testing for SARS-CoV-2 fast and easy

Researchers have modified the CRISPR gene editing tool to serve as a diagnostic test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.

Mike Williams-Rice • futurity
Sept. 23, 2022 ~6 min

COVID-19 can cause lasting lung damage – 3 ways long COVID patients' respiration can suffer

Understanding how injury and disease, including COVID-19, can impair lung function can help researchers and clinicians better help patients who are experiencing chronic conditions

Alexandra Kadl, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Virginia • conversation
Sept. 22, 2022 ~9 min

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