Since the state’s first coronavirus case surfaced, trained case investigators have traced the contacts of every person who tested positive. Here’s what else South Carolina got right.
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Research has yet to support the theory that cash can spread the coronavirus.
Those experiencing stress and uncertainty amid the coronavirus may find guidance in medieval responses to plagues, which relied on both medicine and prayer.
The scientific community is churning out vast quantities of research about the coronavirus pandemic – far too much for researchers to absorb. An AI system aims to do the heavy lifting for them.
Pets might not protect us from the coronavirus, but they can help us get better.
The effective integration of science into policy-making improves legislation and leads to effective solutions for society — and not only during times of crisis like the coronavirus pandemic.
Researchers, scientific journals and health agencies are doing everything they can to speed up coronavirus research. The combination of pace and panic during this pandemic is causing mistakes.
A simple chemical reaction turns the red pigment of beets into a new, nontoxic blue dye.
Nigerian society has drilled into everyone that certain top roles are reserved for men.
When this feeling dawned on me years ago on one of many early morning drives to Canberra during my PhD, it was almost crippling.
The two subject areas can cooperate to create better arguments.
How science has been used to predict wind and rain for over 1,000 years.
NASA scientist Katherine Johnson was instrumental in getting people to the moon. Here are some of the lessons one mathematics professor believes she taught us all.
The sustainability of African agriculture is critical to the continent’s food security and for maintaining agriculture’s contribution to Africa’s rural communities and national economies
For decades Australian scientists have, clearly and respectfully, warned about the risks to Australia of a rapidly heating climate. After this season’s fires, perhaps it’s time to listen.
To confront colonialism, universities must open their archives and let communities see their pasts, eugenics and all.
The solids from wastewater plants are usually dumped into landfills because they are contaminated with heavy metals. Now there is a way to remove the metals so the waste can be used as fertilizer.
The EPA has just adopted a rule that limits what kinds of science regulators can use in setting rules. A scholar explains how this shift could impede his work mapping child lead poisoning.
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That future is one of ever-changing data, analytics and computer infrastructure.
A determined approach to improving diversity will also lead to better science.
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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Head of Developmental Psychobiology Lab, Deakin University
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Environment & Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
