Researchers hope the model can inform public health decision-making amid the pandemic. A new model for predicting COVID-19’s impact using artificial intelligence (AI) dramatically outperforms…
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Artwork from the volunteers (inspired by their dreams during the pandemic). Credit: Natália Mota Dreams during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown reflect mental suffering (anger, sadness)…
Airborne pollution implicated in amyloid plaques, UCSF-led study shows. A new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco has found that among older Americans…
CPAP treatment, which is often used at home to help people with sleep problems, helps to keep the lungs open and makes breathing easier. Credit:…
A new therapy for influenza virus infections that may also prove effective against many other pathogenic virus infections, including HIV and COVID-19, has been developed…
Some evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 originated in bats. International taskforce announced to look into origins of SARS-CoV-2, which sparked COVID-19 pandemic nearly one year ago. Named…
From October to March, large parts of the Swiss Plateau and the Po-Plain may be covered by fog or haze. Such thermal inversions act like…
Understanding Dangerous Droplet Dynamics New fluid dynamics research reveals why social distancing alone doesn’t necessarily prevent infection indoors and how to detect COVID-19 super-spreaders. Researchers…
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick,…
A proposed future society. Credit: Tohoku University The future could hold portable and wearable sensors for detecting viruses and bacteria in the surrounding environment. But…
An artist’s conception of nanodiamonds used for in vitro diagnostics. Credit: Ella Maru Studio/ UCL The quantum sensing abilities of nanodiamonds can be used to…
Anxiety, stress, overthinking, and trauma are commonly used words to describe people suffering from mental health disorders that appear from work overload, depression, negative feedback,…
Researchers at Louisiana State University have applied computational models to investigate infection rates in relation to social distancing measures. Credit: Nicholas Walker, LSU Currently, there…
Forecasting cannot foresee COVID-19 infection rates peaking or plateauing. During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joseph Lee McCauley, a physics professor at the…
Funding from the National Institutes of Health will enable a Penn State researcher to study whether vitamin D supplementation could help people ward off or…
Laboratory tests of talc-based cosmetics products, commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, found asbestos — a deadly human carcinogen for which there is no safe…
Fewer headaches reported when school starts later, UCSF-led study shows. Research indicates that starting school later in the morning yields health and academic benefits for…
None of the mutations currently documented in the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear to increase its transmissibility in humans, according to a study led by University College…
Algorithm outperformed thoracic radiologists in detecting COVID-19 in new study. Algorithm was trained, tested on the largest COVID-era dataset (17,002 X-ray images) Algorithm analyzed X-ray…
The brains of healthy adults recovered faster from a mild vascular challenge and performed better on complex tests if the participants consumed cocoa flavanols beforehand,…