The stress of having children do distance learning at home during the pandemic is linked to an increase in alcohol consumption among parents, a new survey finds.
The polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is used to copy strands of DNA.
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COVID-19 tests rely on a process developed at a biotech company co-founded by a Canadian. Canada’s current testing expertise needs to be channelled to prepare for the next wave, and the next pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic is adding to women’s domestic and professional workloads.
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The demon is not density but rather that African countries have not planned and made the investments necessary to manage the downsides of the type of density found in informal settlements.
A New York Mets employee places cutouts of fans in the seats before the team’s first game of the year on July 24.
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Millions of Americans may be at risk of losing their homes in coming months as eviction moratoriums expire and courts resume a process that heavily favors landlords.
Like mother, like daughter.
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Whether a coronavirus vaccine involves a live virus or a carrier organism, it will probably require more than one injection. But that’s not a bad thing.
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.
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My analysis suggests when COVID-19 cases reach 100 over 14 days, an outbreak gets very difficult to control — as we saw in Victoria. Over the last fortnight, NSW has recorded at least 154 new cases.
Eating at a restaurant and want to stay COVID safe? Check to see if staff are sanitising surfaces, wearing masks, using contactless payment, and spacing out customers.
A fisherman removes a fishing net laid out to dry on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, on May 5 2020.
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Andrea Biswas Tortajada, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) and Cecilia Tortajada, National University of Singapore
The pandemic has disrupted local, regional and national supply chains, making the problem of hunger in India much worse.
It would be extremely controversial for the High Court to invalidate border closures imposed by a state government if there’s a reasonable health justification for the measure.
House lawmakers grilled these four CEOs on July 29.
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As the government considers antitrust action against big US technology companies, a global business scholar identifies four myths that need busting first.
Schoolchildren, some wearing masks, attend a class in a school of Strasbourg in eastern France in May 2020.
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Anne Levesque, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
If returning to in-person instruction is truly impossible for public health reasons, policy makers must make large financial expenditures on quality and accessible distance education.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand