Touchscreens may make toddlers more distractible – new three-year study

Young children may find it harder to control their attention if they use touchscreens regularly.

Tim J. Smith, Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London • conversation
Feb. 1, 2021 ~7 min

How will Covid-19 ultimately impact climate change?

Study probes pandemic’s long-term effects on the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
Jan. 29, 2021 ~4 min


10 parenting strategies to reduce your kids' pandemic stress

Parents can take a page from psychological research on trauma and recovery to help kids struggling with pandemic life.

Jennifer Hays-Grudo, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Oklahoma State University • conversation
Jan. 29, 2021 ~9 min

Making hardware 'open source' can help us fight future pandemics - here's how we get there

An 'open' approach to hardware could make production bottlenecks a thing of the past.

Julian Stirling, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Bath • conversation
Jan. 29, 2021 ~8 min

Travelers coming from Italy may have driven first US COVID-19 wave more than those from China, study suggests

The results from an emerging study suggest governments should act quickly if they plan to impose travel bans – before the virus can spread widely to other countries.

Daniel Simon, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Indiana University • conversation
Jan. 28, 2021 ~6 min

Why it takes 2 shots to make mRNA vaccines do their antibody-creating best – and what the data shows on delaying the booster dose

With slow vaccine distribution and manufacturing, some people won't get the second dose on time. But does it matter?

William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia • conversation
Jan. 28, 2021 ~6 min

Do COVID-19 travel bans work? Here's what happened when US restricted travel from China and Italy

Results from an emerging study on the two travel bans suggest that travelers coming from Italy drove the first wave in the U.S. more than those from China, which faced an earlier travel ban.

Daniel Simon, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Indiana University • conversation
Jan. 28, 2021 ~6 min

Why using fear to promote COVID-19 vaccination and mask wearing could backfire

History holds some lessons about when scaring people to change their behavior works. Two public health experts offer a case for caution right now.

Ronald Bayer, Professor Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University • conversation
Jan. 28, 2021 ~8 min


COVID-19 misinformation on Chinese social media – lessons for countering conspiracy theories

The type and amount of misinformation closely tracks tensions in US-China relations. Effectively countering the misinformation comes down to who does the debunking.

Kaiping Chen, Assistant Professor of Science Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison • conversation
Jan. 28, 2021 ~8 min

Pandemic pushing people to the breaking point, say experts

The coronavirus has had an unexpected mental health impact, striking hardest where its physical impacts are lowest: among youths and young adults.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Jan. 27, 2021 ~6 min

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