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Coronavirus Roundup for April 25-May 1

The items below are highlights from the newsletter, “Smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19.” To receive newsletter issues daily in…

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The Rise of “Health Entertainment” to Convey Lifesaving Messages in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Delivering accurate health messages to people around the world has never been more urgent than during the COVID-19 pandemic. But…

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Camera Traps May Overcount Snow Leopards and Other Vulnerable Species

Back in 1986 South African biologist Rodney Jackson and his now wife Darla Hillard published three “self-portraits” that would shift…

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Goldfish Eliminate Malaria Mosquitoes – Scientific American

Originally published in February 1917 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “A report to the French Academy of Sciences tells of a unique…

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When Will Speech-Recognition Software Finally Be Good Enough?

Back in 2010 Matt Thompson, then with National Public Radio, forecast in an op-ed that “at some point in the…

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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage

Observations | OpinionThe pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and preventionAdvertisement The need for chronic disease management…

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Honey Bees Are Struggling with Their Own Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic makes grimly clear, cities are arguably humanity’s greatest invention, but densely populated metropolises also make us…

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Virus-Infected Bees Practice Social Distancing

If there’s one thing we know about viruses, it’s that they love to spread. The novel coronavirus is happy to…

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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic

In trying to make sense of this rapidly changing COVID-19 world, I reflected on the recent passing of one of…

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Coronavirus Drug Remdesivir Shortens Recovery, But Is Not a Magic Bullet

An experimental drug—and one of the world’s best hopes against COVID-19—could shorten the time to recovery from coronavirus infection, according…

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