Many people lost sense of time during COVID pandemic

The COVID pandemic altered many people's sense of time, leading to trouble keeping track of days and feeling that hours either rushed by or slowed down.

Heather Shannon-UC Irvine • futurity
Aug. 24, 2022 ~4 min

MIT chemists develop a wireless electronic lateral flow assay test for biosensing

Design from the Swager Lab uses electronic polymers, rather than colored lines, to indicate a positive response, enabling quantitative monitoring of biomarkers.

Danielle Randall Doughty | Department of Chemistry • mit
Aug. 24, 2022 ~3 min


Surgical procedures haven’t recovered from COVID

Reductions in surgical procedures precipitated by SARS-CoV-2 have not fully returned to their pre-pandemic levels, resulting in severe backlogs and deferred surgeries.

Tracy Hampton • harvard
Aug. 23, 2022 ~5 min

Type 2 diabetes in kids spiked during COVID pandemic

Researchers report a jump in rates of type 2 diabetes among kids during COVID. A shutdown of school activities and sports may help explain why.

Kim Polyniak-Johns Hopkins • futurity
Aug. 23, 2022 ~7 min

After mandates, more nursing home staff got COVID vax

COVID-19 vaccine mandates were associated with more nursing home staff getting the jab, but not more choosing to leave their jobs rather than comply.

Mark Michaud-Rochester • futurity
Aug. 23, 2022 ~6 min

Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a tool for rooting it out

A new screening tool to help study reviewers identify what’s fake or shoddy in research may be on the horizon. And everyday people can apply some of the same critical analysis tools.

Lisa Bero, Research Professor Public Health and Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus • conversation
Aug. 18, 2022 ~8 min

When COVID-19 or flu viruses kill, they often have an accomplice – bacterial infections

Coinfections with bacteria can make viral infections even deadlier. Researchers have identified a protein in immune cells that may play a role in fighting both types of pathogens.

Hayley Muendlein, Research Assistant Professor of Immunology, Tufts University • conversation
Aug. 17, 2022 ~8 min

Which grocery shopping option generates the most emissions?

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people use the grocery store. But which option is the worst—and best—for the environment? A new study has answers.

Jim Erickson-Michigan • futurity
Aug. 11, 2022 ~7 min


As people locked down, birds lived large in the city

Observations by community scientists reveal how the absence of human activity in cities made room for birds.

Michelle Ma-U. Washington • futurity
Aug. 11, 2022 ~5 min

3 Questions: Amar Gupta on an integrated approach to enhanced health-care delivery

The MIT researcher and former professor discusses how Covid-19 and the influx of virtual technologies created a new medical ecosystem that needs more synchronized oversight.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Aug. 10, 2022 ~12 min

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